adhortative
Sign in to saveAlso known as hortative, hortative mood, hort
In linguistics, hortative modalities (; abbreviated ) are verbal expressions used by the speaker to encourage or discourage an action. Different hortatives can be used to express greater or lesser intensity, or the speaker's attitude, for or against it.
~4 min read
Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Ambiguity
- Imperative-hortative systems
- References
- Sources
In linguistics, hortative modalities (; abbreviated ) are verbal expressions used by the speaker to encourage or discourage an action. Different hortatives can be used to express greater or lesser intensity, or the speaker's attitude, for or against it.
Hortative modalities signal the speaker's encouragement or discouragement toward the addressee's bringing about the action of an utterance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “adhortative” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.