PART 6 Pragmatics
Pragmatics is the study of meaning in terms of the contextual use of language. In one respect, pragmatics is concerned with how meaning of an expression is influenced by prior or subsequent expressions. In broader terms, pragmatics studies how the time, place, and style contribute to meaning, and the conditions or strategies by which language users effectively refer to entities or events.
In this part of the grammar, the first chapter is about reference, namely, how definiteness and specificity influence referring expressions. The next chapter reference tracking involves strategies for introducing and maintaining referents in a discourse. The third chapter speect acts describe how language users fulfuill aims such as assertions, questions, commands, requests, and exclamatives. The next chapter on information structure outlines how old and new information is marked in TİD. The following chapter is about how TİD uses devices of reporting and role shift. The seventh chapter on expressive meaning exposes how signers imply certain meanings that goes beyond the content of their literal expressions. Next chapter consists of various uses of signing space with a focus on topographic relations, temporal expressions, and perspective. The chapter on figurative meaning covers meaning construed by metaphor and metonymy. The next chapter communicative interaction is about the linguistic elements or strategies that contribute to the dynamic flow of a conversation. The final chapter explains the reflections of different kinds of registers and politeness on the linguistic forms of TİD.