{"product_id":"imperatives-and-commands-9780199207909","title":"Imperatives and Commands","description":"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 communcation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlexandra 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199207909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlexandra Y. Aikhenvald \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor and Research Leader (People and Societies of the Tropics) in the Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia. She has worked on descriptive and historical aspects of Berber languages and has published, in Russian, a grammar of Modern Hebrew (1990; second edition 2009). She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995, based on work with the last speaker who has since died) and Warekena (1998), plus \u003cem\u003eA Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia\u003c\/em\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2003), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American languages. Her lengthy grammar, \u003cem\u003eThe Manambu Language from East Sepik, Papua New Guinea\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by OUP in 2008. Other books include \u003cem\u003eClassifiers: a Typology of Noun Categorization Devices\u003c\/em\u003e (2000, paperback 2003), \u003cem\u003eLanguage Contact in Amazonia\u003c\/em\u003e (2002) and \u003cem\u003eEvidentiality\u003c\/em\u003e (2004, paperback 2006), all published by OUP. She is co-editor with R. M. W. Dixon of the OUP series \u003cem\u003eExplorations in Linguistic Typology\u003c\/em\u003e, the fifth volume of which, \u003cem\u003eThe Semantics of Clause Linking\u003c\/em\u003e, appeared in 2009.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":66765363118195,"sku":"9780199207909","price":340.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_a38b583b-9220-40bc-b910-62f74aa6dcde.jpg?v=1790856238","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/imperatives-and-commands-9780199207909","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}