This article examines the pragmatics of signed languages using data drawn from pragmatically motivated studies of ASL. ASL is the primary language of an estimated 100,000–500,000 Americans, including deaf people, hearing children of ASL-using deaf adults, and adult deaf signers who have learned ASL as their second language. It also provides a brief introduction to pragmatics research on other signed languages. The different sections of the article further respectively address: subjectivity; speech acts; modality as an expression of subjectivity; and information flow.