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> From: Jane Hamilton < jane.hamilton at oup.com >
> Subject: Imperatives and Commands: Aikhenvald
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> Title: Imperatives and Commands 
> Series Title: Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory 
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> Publication Year: 2010 
> Publisher: Oxford University Press
> http://www.oup.com/us
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> Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199207909.do 
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> Author: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
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> Hardback: ISBN: 9780199207909 Pages: 520 Price: U.K. £ 65.00
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> Abstract:
> 
> 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 communication.
> 
> 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. 
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> Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
> Typology
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> Written In: English (eng)
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