Whimperatives across English, Armenian and Russian Cultures

Whimperatives express an order or a request. However, they also possess syntactic peculiarities of direct or indirect polite questions. The present article aims to investigate this type of imperative sentences and their illocutionary function in modern English, Armenian and Russian. An attempt has...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lusine Madoyan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Yerevan State University 2012-10-01
Series:Armenian Folia Anglistika
Online Access:https://journals.ysu.am/index.php/arm-fol-angl/article/view/4570