This volume offers the first comprehensive description of English imperatives made from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. It proposes a new way of explaining

Imperatives and directive strategies have intrigued both formalists and functionalists. They continue to search for the answers to questions like “what are th

Cognitive Linguistics is an approach to language study based on the assumptions that our linguistic abilities are firmly rooted in our cognitive abilities, that

The imperative clause is one of three major sentence types that have been found to be universal across the languages of the world. Compared to declaratives and

The key topics discussed in this book illustrate the breadth of cognitive linguistic research and include semantic typology, space, fictive motion, argument str