"whimperative" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1970, Jerrold Sadock, “Whimperatives”, in Studies Presented to Robert B. Lees by His Students, page 235:",
          "text": "Since whimperatives look like questions, the lowest hypersentence must be interrogative.",
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          "ref": "2007, Stephen Pinker, The Stuff of Thought, →ISBN, page 388:",
          "text": "We see this in the way that whimperatives use pro forma openings like Can you rather than other wordings with the same meaning, such as Are you capable of passing the salt?",
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        "An order or imperative phrased obliquely as a question, such as \"would you mind closing the window?\""
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        "(pragmatics) An order or imperative phrased obliquely as a question, such as \"would you mind closing the window?\""
      ],
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        "human-sciences",
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  "word": "whimperative"
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