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Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
► pp. 1209–1223

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
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 3 October 2022
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