Yeah, I don’t really know where imperative statements fall. They seem more like level 3 if I imagine a soldier telling some people to stand down, but in simple things like “please pass the potatoes” there is also a substantial component of just saying “I would like to have the potatoes”, which is just a really straightforward level 1 statement, and indeed in some polite cultures the second one might completely replace the first, showing that they are kind of equivalent.
Yeah, I don’t really know where imperative statements fall. They seem more like level 3 if I imagine a soldier telling some people to stand down, but in simple things like “please pass the potatoes” there is also a substantial component of just saying “I would like to have the potatoes”, which is just a really straightforward level 1 statement, and indeed in some polite cultures the second one might completely replace the first, showing that they are kind of equivalent.