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Illocutionary Acts of Requesting and Inviting
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The speech acts of requesting and inviting have enjoyed differing degrees of attention from students of Chinese pragmatics. Findings about them offer a representative landscape of speech act research in Chinese, particularly in relation to linguistic politeness. It will be demonstrated in this article that studies on requests have provided a useful opportunity to explore negative politeness whereas studies on invitations have been a window for Chinese positive politeness. These studies have offe…
Date:
2017-03-02
