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Publication details [#7003]

Nara, Hiroshi. 1984. A pragmatic analysis of the imperative. Papers from the Mid-America Linguistics Conference 1983 : 326–338.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject

Annotation

An analysis of the imperative utterance (in particular its felicity conditions) in the framework of Gazdar's (1979: 'Pragmatics' and 1981: 'Speech act assignment') theory.