A Study On Invitational Speech Acts In International Oral Chinese Teaching Materials

Invitation speech act is one of the common speech acts in daily life.Inappropriate sending or responding to an invitation can easily lead to emotional disorders and communication failures.Teaching materials are an important tool for students’ daily learning and can be said to be the learning materials that students have the most contact with.The study on teaching materials is an important link in international Chinese teaching.However,there are few researches that combine the research results of inviting speech acts with international Chinese teaching materials.Based on speech communication theory,speech act theory and previous studies,this paper mainly studies invitational speech acts in the Developing Chinese.Spoken Language series textbooks from the perspective of speech communication,examines the specific distribution of invitational speech acts in the textbooks,summarizes and analyzes its characteristics,and puts forward some suggestions on the arrangement and use of the textbooks.This paper mainly includes four parts:The first part is the introduction,including the reason for the topic,research significance,research questions,research methods,research objects,corpus sources,research status and theoretical basis.The second part is the specific description of Chinese invitation speech act,including connotation,structural elements,types and so on.This paper redefines invitation speech act based on previous studies and concrete corpus.The structural elements of inviting speech act include: communicative subject,communicative intention,communicative form and communicative environment.Invitation speech acts can be divided into different categories according to different standards.The third part is to make statistics on the invitation speech acts in the textbook,and make specific statistics and analysis from the aspects of quantity,structural elements,types and so on.To summarize the characteristics of invitation speech act arrangement in international spoken Chinese teaching materials.The fourth part is the evaluation of the statistical situation of the third part,aiming at the shortcomings of the invitation speech act in the textbook,the author puts forward the corresponding suggestions from two aspects of the compilation and use of the textbook.