ENUNŢURILE IMPERATIVE – FORME DE MANIFESTARE A ACTULUI DIRECTIV
THE IMPERATIVE ENUNCIATIONS – FORMS OF EXPRESSING DIRECTIVES

Summary/Abstract: In the process of communication, the locutors interact through the agency of the language. They have in view different ways of communications: to command the addressees, to order, to beg or to advise them; generally speaking, it means someone tries to make the others do something. The interaction between the locutor and the addressee is essential in the discursive situation. By significance and use, the imperative points out the interpersonal relations and the way they are involved in communications. According to the latest research in the field of language acts, the use of the imperative equates the procedure of one or more illocutory acts as far as the relations between the interlocutors change. Here, we want to emphasize the characteristics of the use of the imperative enunciations as an expression of more direct language acts: to command, to reproach, to advise, to threaten etc. Our purpose was to discover the linguistic elements that are useful to explain the illocutory force of the imperative and to increase expressiveness in verbal communication.

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