Ambiguous invitations in the American communicative culture

Abstract

This paper deals with those features of the speech act of Invitation in the American communicative culture that often cause misunderstanding in cross-cultural communication. Based on an empirical research, it examines the use of the so-called «ambiguous» or «phony» invitations and discusses the criteria which can be used to distinguish ambiguous invitations from unambiguous ones.

Keywords

• речевой акт
• истинное приглашение
• ложное приглашение
• фатическая коммуникация
• культурный сценарий
• межкультурная коммуникация