First, each lessens the blunt force and authoritativeness of the second-person imperative by using a more interpersonally agreeable first-person plural imperative, exclamative, and optative respectively. |
This negative effect is analogous to the interpretation of rhetorical exclamative questions in English, such as Who cares? |
From there, Moyse-Faurie moves on to complex sentences, interrogative structures, exclamative sentences, and highlighting or topicalisation. |
In the models to follow, an exclamative rather than an imperative or optative is used to model the emotive features of ethical language. |