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Most of the time our utterances are automatically interpreted as speech acts: as assertions, conjectures and testimonies; as orders, requests and pleas; as threats, offers and promises. Surprisingly, the cognitive correlates of this essential component of human communication have received little attention. This book fills the gap by providing a model of the psychological processes involved in interpreting and understanding speech acts. The theory is framed in naturalistic terms and is supported by data on language development and on autism spectrum disorders. Mikhail Kissine does not presuppose any specific background and addresses a crucial pragmatic phenomenon from an interdisciplinary perspective. This is a valuable resource for academic researchers and graduate and undergraduate students in pragmatics, semantics, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and philosophy of language.

Pragmatics --- Oral communication. --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Speech acts (Linguistics). --- Discourse analysis. --- Pragmatics. --- Semantics. --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Actes de parole --- Communication orale --- Analyse du discours --- Pragmatique --- Sémantique --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Oral transmission --- Speech communication --- Verbal communication --- Communication --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Philosophy --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics

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Imperative sentences usually occur in speech acts such as orders, requests, and pleas. However, they are also used to give advice, and to grant permission, and are sometimes found in advertisements, good wishes and conditional constructions. Yet, the relationship between the form of imperatives, and the wide range of speech acts in which they occur, remains unclear, as do the ways in which semantic theory should handle imperatives. This book is the first to look systematically at both the data and the theory. The first part discusses data from a large set of languages, including many outside the Indo-European family, and analyses in detail the range of uses to which imperatives are put, paying particular attention to controversial cases. This provides the empirical background for the second part, where the authors offer an accessible, comprehensive and in-depth discussion of the major theoretical accounts of imperative semantics and pragmatics.

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Imperative (Grammar) --- Jussive (Grammar) --- Imperative. --- Mood --- Verb --- Linguistics --- Philology

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Comparative linguistics --- Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Temps (Linguistique) --- Tense. --- Temps (linguistique) --- Tense --- 801.56 --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek

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Pragmatics --- Psycholinguistics

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