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Author: Daniël Van Olmen Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN: 9027265933 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 332
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Imperatives and directive strategies have intrigued both formalists and functionalists. They continue to search for the answers to questions like “what are the semantics of the imperative?”, “how is it used (in the world’s languages)?” and “which factors determine the choice between imperatives and other directive strategies?”. This volume takes a broadly functional-typological perspective and contributes to the literature in several respects. It presents new data from a variety of languages, some of which have not been studied in depth before. It exemplifies the benefits of traditional methodologies as well as the potential of more innovative ones. In addition, the volume sheds new light on the imperative as a typological notion, its meaning and uses and its interaction with other grammatical categories. It also offers new insights into the relation between different directive strategies within and across languages and into the (dis)similarities between equivalent directive strategies in a language family.
Author: Daniël Van Olmen Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN: 9027265933 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 332
Book Description
Imperatives and directive strategies have intrigued both formalists and functionalists. They continue to search for the answers to questions like “what are the semantics of the imperative?”, “how is it used (in the world’s languages)?” and “which factors determine the choice between imperatives and other directive strategies?”. This volume takes a broadly functional-typological perspective and contributes to the literature in several respects. It presents new data from a variety of languages, some of which have not been studied in depth before. It exemplifies the benefits of traditional methodologies as well as the potential of more innovative ones. In addition, the volume sheds new light on the imperative as a typological notion, its meaning and uses and its interaction with other grammatical categories. It also offers new insights into the relation between different directive strategies within and across languages and into the (dis)similarities between equivalent directive strategies in a language family.
Author: Rodie Risselada Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004408975 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 361
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As the recent hausse in pragmatic studies shows, linguistic attention is increasingly focussing on aspects of language use. Making use of recent insights developed within speech act theory, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics, this book deals with the various expressions that were used in Latin to per-form so-called directive speech acts, i.e. orders, requests, advice, proposals, sug-gestions, etc. On the basis of a large corpus of comedy, correspondence, and instruction texts the expressions concerned (imperatives, subjunctives, future indicatives, as well as modal expressions and vari-ous other lexical expressions of directivity) are investigated against the background of the verbal interactions in which they typically occur. As regards its contribution to Latin linguistics, the present study adds a number of re-finements to our knowledge of this well-documented lan-guage, for instance with respect to the reference of the subjects of the so-called impera-tive II ending in -to, the conventionalized speech act functions of interrogative quid and quin directives, and the diachronic process of conventionalization of velim requests.
Author: Ghanshyam Sharma Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110610795 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 378
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Trends in Hindi Linguistics provides a snapshot of current developments in Hindi syntax and semantics and covers topics such as definiteness marking, comparative constructions with differentials, conjunct verbs, participial relative clauses, ellipsis, scrambling, infinitives and directive strategies. Together these papers give a rich and in-depth account of the vitality of current research on Hindi.
Author: Hidemitsu Takahashi Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing ISBN: 9027274762 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 262
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This volume offers the first comprehensive description of English imperatives made from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. It 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. Furthermore, the book applies the theory of Construction Grammar to account for the felicity of imperatives in complex sentences. The model of description explains explicitly a wide range of phenomena, including frequency of use, prototypical vs. non-prototypical uses of the English imperative and the choice between longer vs. shorter directives including the imperative. A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the English Imperative: With Special Reference to Japanese Imperatives is intended for both researchers and students interested in the English imperative and Directive Speech Acts at large and for the linguists working within the Cognitive Linguistics and/or Construction Grammar approach.
Author: Bambi B. Schieffelin Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521339193 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 292
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A new, alternative, integrated approach to the developmental study of language and culture.
Author: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198803222 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 353
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Series statement "Oxford linguistics" from dust jacket.
Author: Geoffrey N. Leech Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 019534135X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 369
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This readable book presents a new general theoretical understanding of politeness. It offers an account of a wide range of politeness phenomena in English, illustrated by hundreds of examples of actual language use taken largely from authentic British and American sources. Building on his earlier pioneering work on politeness, Geoffrey Leech takes a pragmatic approach that is based on the controversial notion that politeness is communicative altruism. Leech's 1983 book, Principles of Pragmatics, introduced the now widely-accepted distinction between pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic aspects of politeness; this book returns to the pragmalinguistic side, somewhat neglected in recent work. Drawing on neo-Gricean thinking, Leech rejects the prevalent view that it is impossible to apply the terms 'polite' or 'impolite' to linguistic phenomena. Leech covers all major speech acts that are either positively or negatively associated with politeness, such as requests, apologies, compliments, offers, criticisms, good wishes, condolences, congratulations, agreement, and disagreement. Additional chapters deal with impoliteness and the related phenomena of irony ("mock politeness") and banter ("mock impoliteness"), and with the role of politeness in the learning of English as a second language. A final chapter takes a fascinating look at more than a thousand years of history of politeness in the English language.
Author: Renate Bauer Publisher: utzverlag GmbH ISBN: 3831649960 Category : Languages : en Pages : 443
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This Gedenkschrift celebrates the memory of Professor Hans Sauer and his passion for travelling. The contributions in this volume explore different kinds of textual and temporal travels from various linguistic, literary, and philological perspectives.
Author: Asier Alcázar Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107005809 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 237
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The imperative clause is one of three major sentence types that have been found to be universal across the languages of the world. Compared to declaratives and interrogatives, the imperative type has received comparatively less attention. Using compelling empirical evidence, this cutting-edge study presents a new linguistic theory of imperatives.
Author: Daniël Van Olmen
Author: Daniël Van Olmen
Author: Rodie Risselada
Author: Mark Jary
Author: Ghanshyam Sharma
Author: Hidemitsu Takahashi
Author: Bambi B. Schieffelin
Author: Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd
Author: Geoffrey N. Leech
Author: Renate Bauer
Author: Asier Alcázar