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Imperatives and Commands
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
522 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-920790-9
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Hardback
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16 September 2010
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- The first typological study of imperatives and commands
- Covers an extensive range of languages
- Offers fresh insights on the relation between language and culture
- Clearly written and presented in an entertaining fashion
- Written by one of the world's leading linguistic scholars
This is the first cross-linguistic study of imperatives, and commands of other kinds, across the world's languages. It makes a significant and original contribution to the understanding of their morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics. The author discusses the role imperatives and commands play in human cognition and how they are deployed in different cultures, and in doing so offers fresh insights on patterns of human interaction and communcation.
Alexandra Aikhenvald examines the ways of framing commands, or command strategies, in languages that do not have special imperative forms. She analyses the
grammatical and semantic properties of positive and negative imperatives and shows how these correlate with categories such as tense, information source, and politeness. She looks at the relation of command pragmatics to cultural practices, assessing, for example, the basis for Margaret Mead's assumption that the harsher the people the more frequently they use imperatives. Professor Aikhenvald covers a wide range of language families, including many relatively neglected examples from North America, Amazonia, and New Guinea. The book is accompanied by illustrations of some conventional command signs.
Written and presented with the author's characteristic clarity, this book will be welcomed by linguists of all theoretical persuasions. It will appeal to social and
cultural anthropologists and cognitive and behavioural scientists.Readership: Linguists of all theoretical persuasions and their students at advanced undergraduate level and above. Social and cultural anthropologists. Cognitive and behavioural scientists. The book also has the potential to be used as a textbook for graduate and senior undergraduate courses in syntax, semantics, and typology.
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Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Cairns Institute, James Cook University
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"The book is very well equipped ... The main contribution of Aikhenvald's book ... is its descriptive side. The impressive overview it provides of the crosslinguistic variation and tendencies pertaining to imperatives and commands makes it a must for anyone interested in either of these two subjects. So, if you are interested, read Aikhenvald's book!" - Kasper Boye, Functions of Language "Imperatives and Commands offers a wealth of empirical data and covers almost every relevant topic imaginable. Unlike any article or book before, it describes the crosslinguistic variation in imperatives and alternative directive strategies in a clear and thorough way. ... [It] constitutes a reference work for field workers, who will welcome the
appended checklist "of what kind of features need to be described, analysed, and illustrated" (p. 418), and for anyone interested in imperatives and directives. Researchers will also enjoy the extensive author, language, and subject indexes and the vast bibliography." - Linguistic Typology
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1: Setting the Scene
2: Imperatives Worldwide
3: How Imperatives are Special
4: Imperatives and Other Grammatical Categories
5: Negative Imperatives
6: Imperatives and Their Meanings
7: Imperatives Which do not Command
8: Imperatives in Disguise
9: Imperatives we Live by
10: Where do Imperatives Come From?
11: What can we Conclude?
Appendix
References
Index of Authors
Index of Languages, Linguistic Families, and Areas
Index of Subjects
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