ABSTRACT
Extract A: The man’s wife issues a command (a directive) to her husband to get him to tell the author about his work in the library at Queens.
Extract B: The man’s wife poses two interrogatives to her husband. Neither interrogative is an information-seeking question as the wife knows the answers to both questions. She is instead using these questions to get her husband to tell the author about the next river cruise that they are planning (a directive).
Extract C: The man’s wife is using a statement to issue a denial (an assertive).
