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Imperatives
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Artikel-Nr:
9781107632356
Veröffentl:
2014
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
11.06.2014
Seiten:
336
Autor:
Mark Jary
Gewicht:
424 g
Format:
216x140x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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).
Overview of imperatives, and a close examination of the theoretical traditions that have tried to explain them.
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.