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Imperatives
Contributor(s): Jary, Mark (Author), Kissine, Mikhail (Author)
ISBN: 1107012341     ISBN-13: 9781107012349
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $118.75  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: July 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation
Dewey: 415
LCCN: 2014006703
Series: Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.18 lbs) 336 pages
 
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Imperative sentences usually occur in speech acts such as orders, requests, and pleas. However, they are also used to give advice, and to grant permission, and are sometimes found in advertisements, good wishes and conditional constructions. Yet, the relationship between the form of imperatives, and the wide range of speech acts in which they occur, remains unclear, as do the ways in which semantic theory should handle imperatives. This book is the first to look systematically at both the data and the theory. The first part discusses data from a large set of languages, including many outside the Indo-European family, and analyses in detail the range of uses to which imperatives are put, paying particular attention to controversial cases. This provides the empirical background for the second part, where the authors offer an accessible, comprehensive and in-depth discussion of the major theoretical accounts of imperative semantics and pragmatics.

Contributor Bio(s): Jary, Mark: - Mark Jary is Reader in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Roehampton. He has written widely on semantics, pragmatics and philosophy of language and is the author of Assertion (2010).Kissine, Mikhail: - Mikhail Kissine is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. He has written widely on semantics, pragmatics and philosophy of language and is the author of From Utterances to Speech Acts (Cambridge University Press, 2013).