Chapter 18 Specificity and Definiteness

While definiteness encodes the information that the sender assumes that the addressee has, specificity encodes the knowledge that the sender has and the anchoring to an item. The chapter focuses on lexical determiners and non-manual marking. As the example below shows, the use of this sign does not...

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description While definiteness encodes the information that the sender assumes that the addressee has, specificity encodes the knowledge that the sender has and the anchoring to an item. The chapter focuses on lexical determiners and non-manual marking. As the example below shows, the use of this sign does not have a pejorative meaning, as it can be used in a context where the discourse referent helps the sender. The reading in corresponds to an epistemically specific discourse referent, which is thus identifiable by the sender. The reading in corresponds to an epistemically non-specific and unidentifiable discourse referent. Definiteness and specificity are two interrelated but independent notions. Sign languages are provided with a rich array of lexical signs expressing indefiniteness, but to the best of my knowledge, only few lexical signs have been claimed so far to be specialized for a definiteness.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1213352025-03-12T19:49:55Z Chapter 18 Specificity and Definiteness Barberà, Gemma Experimental, handbook, language, phonological, research, sign, theoretical, comprehension, conventions, interrogatives, While definiteness encodes the information that the sender assumes that the addressee has, specificity encodes the knowledge that the sender has and the anchoring to an item. The chapter focuses on lexical determiners and non-manual marking. As the example below shows, the use of this sign does not have a pejorative meaning, as it can be used in a context where the discourse referent helps the sender. The reading in corresponds to an epistemically specific discourse referent, which is thus identifiable by the sender. The reading in corresponds to an epistemically non-specific and unidentifiable discourse referent. Definiteness and specificity are two interrelated but independent notions. Sign languages are provided with a rich array of lexical signs expressing indefiniteness, but to the best of my knowledge, only few lexical signs have been claimed so far to be specialized for a definiteness. 2023-11-16T10:16:34Z 2023-11-16T10:16:34Z 2023-09-27T12:40:34Z 2021 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76454 9781138801998 9780367640996 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121335 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76454/1/9781315754499_10.4324_9781315754499-18.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76454/1/9781315754499_10.4324_9781315754499-18.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/76454/1/9781315754499_10.4324_9781315754499-18.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315754499-18 10.4324/9781315754499-18 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research Universitat Pompeu Fabra 8ece0728-d36b-453a-b443-5923b97c04c3 9781138801998 9780367640996 Routledge 21 open access
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