Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of the English Imperative : With Special Reference to Japanese Imperatives.

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...

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Author / Creator: Takahashi, Hidemitsu.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012.
Series:Human Cognitive Processing
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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