A Kind of Insincere Q-Imperative Sentence
Gao Zeng-xia · Journal of Henan Normal University · 2005
A real imperative sentence is used to ask for things or services.If the user's motive is to give message instead of gaining something,the sentence he used is an insincere imperative sentence.There are four ways for a sentence to become a questionarily imperative sentence(or Q-imperative sentence) according to the pragmatical requirements of the Order action,which function is to reason with the receiver or to remand of the listener.The listener can react either according to the user's real motivation or as if it were a real imperative sentence.