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

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

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

An engaging overview of imperatives and a close examination of how different theoretical traditions have tried to explain them.

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