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Tseng, Miao-Fen 2015-09-25T19:56:47Z 2015-09-25T19:56:47Z 10000-01-01 1999 1999 Erica McClure The results showed that despite its prevalence, the tripartite structure in accordance with an invite/refuse-invite/refuse-invite/accept schema documented in earlier studies in fact lacked completeness and thoroughness in shaping Chinese pragmatics. There also existed two additional interactive structures featuring Chinese invitational conversations: the single structure in accordance with an invite/accept schema, and the bipartite structure in accordance with an invite/refuse-invite/accept schema. In the sentential analysis, refusal strategies demonstrated a much more far-reaching complexity and irregularity than did invitational patterns. Some invitational patterns and refusal strategies occurring in Chinese were not included in models based upon English empirical data. Among the four factors considered in this study, the degree of weightiness and the degree of familiarity were found to outweigh the other two factors across the three pragmatic aspects investigated. In particular, the degree of weightiness, which has never been explored in pragmatic studies, appeared to be the most dominant factor in determining both conversational interactions and sentential variations in Chinese invitations. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T19:56:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 9953163.pdf: 9312752 bytes, checksum: 8241d5dfe3094aa6ec562c9934a887cd (MD5) Previous issue date: 1999 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 81651 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 215 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/80369 (MiAaPQ)AAI9953163 eng Speech Communication A Pragmatic Study on Speech Acts in Chinese Invitational Conversations text Education Education University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.