Imperatives

Informationen zum Autor 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). Mikhail Kissine is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Université 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). Klappentext An engaging overview of imperatives and a close examination of how different theoretical traditions have tried to explain them. Zusammenfassung This book explores one of the most central and puzzling features of language: imperative sentences. It is the first systematic survey to employ data from a range of languages! including many outside the Indo-European family and it provides a comprehensive and in-depth critical discussion of existing semantic and pragmatic theories. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Data: 1. What is the imperative mood?; 2. Imperative mood and directive force; 3. Imperatives with conditional meanings; Part II. The Theories; Introduction to Part II: from data to theory; 4. The imperative is directive force; 5. Declarative-like semantics for imperatives; 6. The imperative as a distinct semantic type; An opinionated conclusion; Appendix A. Possible worlds and semantics; Appendix B. Modality in possible-word semantics; Appendix C. Stalnaker's common-ground model of assertion; Glossary.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Jary, Mark (Roehampton University Jary, Mark Kissine Jary, Jary Mark, Mikhail Kissine, Kissine Mikhail
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9781107012349
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01234-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Key Topics in Semantics and Pr; Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics