Publications
Publication details [#57364]
Velea, Adina. 2013. Imperatives and commitments in Romanian academic meeting interactions. Pragmatics 23 (3) : 545–564. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag
Annotation
This study shows how ‘bare’ imperative turns-at-talk in Romanian academic meeting interactions, express actions that exhibit no contingency or trouble in managing them or even render a concurrent commitment, offering to compensate for insufficient contingencies.