The Contrastive Analysis of the Speech Act of Invitation Between English and Farsi  

作　　者：Behzad Nazari 

机构地区：[1]Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran

出　　处：《US-China Foreign Language》2014年第8期655-661,共7页美中外语（英文版）

摘　　要：The present paper focuses on the critical properties of sound and artificial invitations in Farsi according to a collected number of impromptu invitations in Farsi. The outcomes were compared and analyzed with the structure of invitations in English. The findings revealed that, in Farsi, the structure of artificial invitations is more intricate than in English. The qualities, based on which we can judge the reality of the invitations, support that in English artificial invitations exist while these qualities are not ample to be relied on in discriminating artificial invitations from sound invitations in Persian. Invitations that follow the factors for being sound invitations in English can be sorted out as ostensible by Persian speakers. The results of this study suggest that a noticeable number of ostensible invitations are applied by Persian speakers in their everyday activities as a superficial politeness indication （ta ＇arof）. The study points out that the cornerstone in using ostensible invitations in Farsi is promoting face for both the speaker and the listener

关 键 词：speech act INVITATION ostensible invitation formal invitation informal invitation POLITENESS 

分 类 号：TP18[自动化与计算机技术—控制理论与控制工程] H31[自动化与计算机技术—控制科学与工程]