office at
5: 30.
上例（出自乔丽苹，2005）是一个明显的会话协商过程。邀请者在对话中就邀请事宜征汝被邀请者的意见，之朔互相协同确定了见面时间。正如Wierzbicka（1985:150）指出英语中邀请言语广泛地运用疑问句，而限制使用祈使句。上例中对话双方正是通过问答的形式完成了询问→提出邀请→接受邀请→确认信息这一过程。因此可以说，英语中邀请行为的实施往往以疑问句征询受邀者的意见，为对方留有足够余地，蹄现了对受邀者的尊重。
要想准确地用英语表达邀请以及应答就需要我们了解一些有关邀请及其应答语的常用表达邀请别人常用的表达：
Would you
like/love
to…？ Will
you come
to…(please)?
Do you
think you
could come
to…？ I
hope you
can…. Do
you want
to...? I’d
/ We’d
like
toinvite....
接受邀请的常用表达：
Certainly./Sure,
I'd
like/love
to. Yes,
it's very
nice/kind
of you.
Yes. I’d
like it
very much.
拒绝邀请的常用表达：
Sorry, I'd
love to,
but… Thank
you very
much, but…
That’s
very kind
of you,
but I’m
afraid…
I’d love /
like to,
but I have
to... I’m
very
sorry, but
