The Pragmatics of Person and Imperatives in Sign Language of the Netherlands

• Authors: Emar Maier , Kees De Schepper , Martine Zwets
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We present new evidence against a grammatical distinction between second and third person in Sign Language of The Netherlands (NGT). More precisely, we show how pushing this distinction into the domain of pragmatics helps account for an otherwise puzzling fact about the NGT imperative: not only is it used to command your addressee, it can also express ‘non-addressee-oriented commands’.

Keywords

EN

sign language; pragmatics; imperatives; pointing; person

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Research in Language
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 359-376

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2014-03-11

Contributors

author

Emar Maier

• University of Groningen

author

Kees De Schepper

• Radboud University Nijmegen

author

Martine Zwets

• Radboud University Nijmegen

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rela-2013-0010