Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the major clause
types alongside those known as declarative and interrogative.
Nevertheless, they are still an enigma in the study of meaning,
which relies largely on either the concept of truth conditions or
the concept of information growth-neither of which are easily
applied to imperatives. This book puts forward a fresh perspective.
It analyzes imperatives in terms of modalized propositions, and
identifies an additional, presuppositional, meaning component that
makes an assertive interpretation inappropriate. The author shows
how these two elements can help explain the varied effects
imperatives have, depending on their usage context.
Imperatives have been viewed as elusive components of language
because they have a range of functions that makes them difficult to
unify theoretically. This fresh view of the semantics-pragmatics
interface allows for a uniform semantic analysis while accounting
for the pragmatic versatility of imperatives.
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