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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 July 2017
- ISBN 9780198803225
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages354 pages
- Size 242x170x24 mm
- Weight 674 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume focuses on the form and the function of commands-directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders-from a typological perspective. Authors analyse the marking and meaning of commands in a range of typologically diverse languages on the basis of extensive fieldwork and in a way that allows useful comparison.
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This book focuses on the form and the function of commands-directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders-from a typological perspective. A team of internationally-renowned experts in the field examine the interrelationship of these speech acts with cultural stereotypes and practices, as well as their origins and development, especially in the light of language contact.
The volume begins with an introduction outlining the marking and the meaning of imperatives and other ways of expressing commands and directives. Each of the chapters that follow then offers an in-depth analysis of commands in a particular language. These analyses are cast in terms of 'basic linguistic theory'-a cumulative typological functional framework-and the chapters are arranged and structured in a way that allows useful comparison between them. The languages investigated include Quechua, Japanese, Lao, Aguaruna and Ashaninka Satipo (both from Peru), Dyirbal (from Australia), Zenzontepec Chatino (from Mexico), Nungon, Tayatuk, and Karawari (from Papua New Guinea), Korowai (from West Papua), Wolaitta (from Ethiopia), and Northern Paiute (a native language of the United States).
The great merits of this book are obvious. It provides a broad picture of the semantic and pragmatic aspects of the topic. The descriptions and analyses are well-documented and, thanks to the common theoretical framework, congenially coherent.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Abbreviations
Notes on the contributors
Commands: A cross-linguistic view
Imperatives and commands in Quechua
The grammatical representation of commands and prohibitions in Aguaruna
Imperatives in Ashaninka Satipo (Kampa Arawak) of Peru
Commands in Zenzontepec Chatino (Otomanguean)
What Dyirbal uses instead of commands
On the heterogeneity of Northern Paiute directives
Imperatives and commands in Japanese
Commands in Lao
Imperatives and command strategies in Tayatuk (Morobe, PNG)
Imperatives and commands in Nungon
The imperative paradigm of Korowai, a Greater Awyu language of West Papua
Commands as a form of intimacy among the Karawari of Papua New Guinea
Commands in Wolaitta
Veiled commands: Anthropological perspectives on directives
Index
