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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Takahashi, Hidemitsu. Cognitive linguistic analysis of the English imperative. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 (DLC) 2011052418 (OCoLC)769916200 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hidemitsu Takahashi |
ISBN: | 9789027274762 9027274762 1280497556 9781280497551 |
OCLC Number: | 781744875 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 242 pages). |
Contents: | 1. List of figures; 2. List of tables; 3. Abbreviations; 4. Acknowledgments; 5. 1. Introduction; 6. 2. Observing English imperatives in action; 7. 3. The meaning of the English imperative; 8. 4. Accounting for some of the findings in Chapter 2 and the choice between imperatives and indirect directives; 9. 5. Mixed imperative constructions: Passive, progressive, and perfective imperatives in English; 10. 6. Conditional imperatives in English; 11. 7. English imperatives in concessive clauses; 12. 8. Japanese imperatives; 13. 9. Conclusions and prospects; 14. References; 15. Data sources; 16. Name index; 17. Subject index |
Series Title: | Human cognitive processing, v. 35. |
Responsibility: | Hidemitsu Takahashi. |
Abstract:
Offers a comprehensive description of English imperatives made from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. This book proposes a new way of explaining the meaning and function of the imperative independently of illocutionary act classifications, which allows for quantifying the strength of imperative force in terms of parameters and numerical values.
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