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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)
| 施婉萍教授 (语言学及现代语言系) |
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| 数位物件识别号 (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2012.08.011 |
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摘要In several sign languages, it is observed that sometimes a nominal expression appears twice within the same sentence, once in its regular syntactic position and once sentence-finally as a pronominal pointing sign. This paper investigates how these sentence-final pronouns are used in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL), which is the natural sign language used by the Deaf community in Hong Kong. Previous studies of sentence-final pronouns in sign languages put forward three major accounts: these pronouns serve as focus/emphasis markers, agreement markers, and right dislocations. On the basis of elicited and spontaneous discourse data collected from deaf native signers, this paper argues that sentence-final pronouns in HKSL are right dislocated 'aboutness' topics. Given that pronouns in HKSL, as in other sign languages, are directed towards the locations associated with the intended referents, sentence-final pronouns can help secure the attention of the addressee towards the topics in discourse by upholding their visual prominence via spatial indexing. This strategy is most commonly used in conversational interactions. (C) 20http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/12 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
着者Sze FYB
期刊名称JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS
出版年份20http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/12
月份http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1
日期http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1
卷号44
期次http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/14
出版社Elsevier
页次http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1949 - http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/1965
国际标準期刊号0378-2http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/166
语言英式英语
关键词'Aboutness' topics; Hong Kong Sign Language; Right dislocations; Sentence-final pronouns
Web of Science 学科类别Language & Linguistics; Linguistics; LINGUISTICS
