Signed language pragmatics
Article outline
- 1.The world’s signed languages
- 1.1Language and its expression
- 2.Subjectivity
- 3.Speech acts
- 3.1Direct speech acts
- 3.2Performatives
- 3.3Indirect speech acts
- 4.Modality as an expression of subjectivity
- 4.1Agent-oriented uses in ASL
- 4.2Epistemic uses and the role of syntax
- 4.3Negative modal concepts
- 4.4Historical sources and grammaticization
- 5.Information flow
- 5.1Topic and constituent type
- 5.2Topic–comment structure
- 5.3Grammatical topics
- 5.4Tiered topics and topic scope
- 5.5Topic shift
- 6.Pragmatics and other signed languages
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