This thesis examines the communicative-pragmatic nature of the speech genre of invitation/offer and determines its position within the system of speech acts. Drawing on speech act theory, pragmalinguistics, and the theory of speech genres, the study analyzes the illocutionary and perlocutionary characteristics of invitation utterances. The research demonstrates that invitation functions as a complex communicative phenomenon combining directive and commissive features. It is characterized by a specific communicative purpose, participant roles, contextual conditions, and culturally conditioned linguistic realizations. The study argues that invitation constitutes an independent speech genre with stable pragmatic parameters while occupying an intermediate position within the broader system of speech acts.
Publication Date: 2026-06-23