学习文档 仅供参考 ABSTRACT February, 2012, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visited the United States. About forty years ago,ative Principle, and some related theories on Context. Then through analyzing the data we collect from the two well-known novels The Forsyte Saga and Four Generations under One Roof, finally we find in our research the differences and similarities of English and Chinese ostensible invitations. We conduct a comparative study on them and discuss the reasons behind those distinctions. This research finds that English and Chinese ostensible invitations have differences in such aspects as frequency, attitude, uncertainty and position, and both have some common features of ostensible invitations, such as flouting the sincerity condition, using formula and etc. After examining to existing literature, our findings indicate that this study is the first attempt to make a comparative study on English and Chinese ostensible invitations. It contributes new data and perspectives to the current studies in this area. Keywords：ostensible invitations speech act theory cooperative principle context 学习文档 仅供参考 Abstract Based on Bachman’s (1990) Communicative Language Ability model and Hedge’s (2001) operational definition of CLA model, this present study intends to investigate the construct validity of PETS Writing Test from the perspective of task and test take
