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From: Jolanda Voogd [Jolanda.Voogd at springer.com]
Subject: Interpreting Imperatives: Kaufmann


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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:01:19
From: Jolanda Voogd [Jolanda.Voogd at springer.com]
Subject: Interpreting Imperatives: Kaufmann

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Title: Interpreting Imperatives 
Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Springer
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Book URL: http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/book/978-94-007-2268-2?changeHeader 


Author: Magdalena Kaufmann

Hardback: ISBN:  9789400722682 Pages: 280 Price: Europe EURO 99.95


Abstract:

Imperative clauses are recognized as one of the major clause types alongside 
those known as declarative and interrogative. Nevertheless, they are still an 
enigma in the study of meaning, which relies largely on either the concept of 
truth conditions or the concept of information growth—neither of which are easily 
applied to imperatives. This book puts forward a fresh perspective. It analyzes 
imperatives in terms of modalized propositions, and identifies an additional, 
presuppositional, meaning component that makes an assertive interpretation 
inappropriate. The author shows how these two elements can help explain the 
varied effects imperatives have, depending on their usage context.

Imperatives have been viewed as elusive components of language because 
they have a range of functions that makes them difficult to unify theoretically. 
This fresh view of the semantics-pragmatics interface allows for a uniform 
semantic analysis while accounting for the pragmatic versatility of imperatives. 



Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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