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Dissertation abstract
Imperatives and imperative speech acts in sign languages
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Article outline
- Methodology
- Empirical studies on imperative speech acts
- Manual markers of imperative speech acts
- Non-manual markers of imperative speech acts
- Negative imperative speech acts
- The imperative subject in GSL
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
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