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The Cognitive Construal of Chinese Imperatives

Authors
Yujuan Feng, Zhengguang Liu
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Yujuan Feng
Available Online March 2018.
DOI
10.2991/iccese-18.2018.118How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Chinese imperatives; meaning generation; cognitive motivation
Abstract

Imperatives indicate the speaker’s desire to influence future actions, which are generally accomplished by making requests, suggestion, or giving orders. Different form English imperatives, Chinese imperatives don’t have fixed syntactic structures or coherent morphology. This article tries to probe into the mechanism of meaning generation in Chinese imperatives from a constructional perspective, in hope of finding a feasible cognitive motivation for the interpretation and comprehension of Chinese imperatives.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
March 2018
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978-94-6252-495-8
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/iccese-18.2018.118How to use a DOI?
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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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