A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the English Imperative: With special reference to Japanese imperatives
Hidemitsu Takahashi
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… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 35] 2012. xvii, 242 pp.
