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Imperatives and Commands (Hardcover)
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Imperatives and Commands (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory
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This is the first cross-linguistic study of imperatives, and
commands of other kinds, across the world's languages. It makes a
significant and original contribution to the understanding of their
morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics.
The author discusses the role imperatives and commands play in
human cognition and how they are deployed in different cultures,
and in doing so offers fresh insights on patterns of human
interaction and communcation.
Alexandra Aikhenvald examines the ways of framing commands, or
command strategies, in languages that do not have special
imperative forms. She analyses the grammatical and semantic
properties of positive and negative imperatives and shows how these
correlate with categories such as tense, information source, and
politeness. She looks at the relation of command pragmatics to
cultural practices, assessing, for example, the basis for Margaret
Mead's assumption that the harsher the people the more frequently
they use imperatives. Professor Aikhenvald covers a wide range of
language families, including many relatively neglected examples
from North America, Amazonia, and New Guinea. The book is
accompanied by illustrations of some conventional command signs.
Written and presented with the author's characteristic clarity,
this book will be welcomed by linguists of all theoretical
persuasions. It will appeal to social and cultural anthropologists
and cognitive and behavioural scientists.
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