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Directives

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posted on 2016-04-07, 09:08 authored by Jessica RoblesJessica Robles
Directives are kinds of utterances that attempt to get another person to do something; such utterances include for example instructions, requests, and commands. This article describes the intellectual history of directives, their cultural differences, their institutional contexts, and current and future directions of research in this area.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

Published in

Encyclopedia of language and social interaction

Citation

ROBLES, J., 2015. Directives. IN: Tracy, K., Ilie, C. and Sandel, T. (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction, Oxford: Wiley, pp. 1-5.

Publisher

© Wiley

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2015-03-01

Publication date

2015

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This paper is in closed access.

ISBN

9781118611463

Language

  • en

Editor(s)

Tracy, K