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Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1. Origin of the study
1.2.Approaches and goals of the study
1.3 Organization of the thesis
Chapter 2. Politeness and invitation
2.1 Politeness theories: an overview
2.1.1 Brown and Levinson's face theory.
2.1.2 Leech‘s Politeness Principle
2.1.3 Gu's interpretation about the essence of Chinese limao
2.2. Definitions of invitation
2.3 Politeness and invitation
2.4 Summary
Chapter 3. Methodology and Procedures
3.1 Aims and objectives
3.1.1 General aims
3.1.2 Specific objectives
3.2 Data collection
3.2.1 Subjects
3.2.2 Instruments
3.2.3 Data collecting procedures
3.3 Summary
Chapter 4. Results and discussions
4.1 Realization of invitations in Chinese context
4.1.1 Sequential Patterns
4.1.2 Strategies of pre-invitations
4.1.3 Semantic formulas of invitation strategies
4.1.4 Strategies of responses to invitations
4.2 Functions of invitations
4.3 Influences ofSocial variables on the realization of invitations
4.3.1. Distribution of frequency of invitation occurrences
4.3.2 Influences of social variables on invitation Strategies
4.4 Summary
Chapter 5. Conclusion
Bibliography
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