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.
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 discusses the role imperatives and commands play in human cognition and how they are deployed in different cultures, and in doing so offers fresh insights on patterns of human interaction and communication.
This book is primarily aimed at people who have never used the syntax option in
SPSS, or have just started to use it. SPSS syntax is the command language used by
SPSS to carry out all of its commands and functions. Most users are unaware of this
command language, using the more usual drop-down, menu-driven method of
accessing the commands and functions of SPSS.
This book is primarily aimed at people who have never used the syntax option inSPSS, or have just started to use it. SPSS syntax is the command language used by SPSS to carry out all of its commands and functions.
It was more than an incident. It was a deadly assault across the 38th parallel. It was the Korean War. In the fear and frenzy of battle, those who had served with heroism before were called again by America to man the trenches and sandbag bunkers. From Pusan to the Yalu, they drove forward with commands too new and tanks too old: brothers in war, bonded together in battle as they had never been in peace...
