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 discus…
Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and "like" something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons beco…
Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and "like" something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons beco…
Datenbanken sind das beste Werkzeug, um wichtige Informationen im Auge zu behalten. Mit SQL kOnnen die vorhandenen Daten strukturiert und zielsicher abgefragt werden. In "SQL fUr Dummies" macht Allen G. Taylor die Leser mit der Abfragesprache SQL und dem aktuellen Standard SQL:2…
The purpose of this essay is to both discuss commands as a species of speech act and to discuss commands within the broader framework of how they are used and reacted to.
