Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contributors -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Theory of mind elements across languages. Traces of Bühler's legacy in modern linguistics -- Part I. The foundation: speaker and hearer deixis, shifter, and double displacement -- Epistemicity, Evidentiality, and Theory of Mind (ToM) -- Illocutive force is speaker and information source concern. What type of syntax does the representation of speaker deixis require? Templates vs. derivational structure? -- Exploring the Theory of Mind interface -- The distribution of knowledge in (un)acceptable questions -- Traces of Bühler's semiotic legacy in modern linguistics -- Part II. Instances of deixis and origo in sundry languages -- Modal particles, speaker-hearer links, and illocutionary force -- Discourse particles at the semantics-pragmatics interface -- Modality in the Romance languages: Modal verbs and modal particles -- The epistemological treatment of information and the interpersonal distribution of belief in language: German Modal Particles and the typological challenge -- Construction-dependent person hierarchies -- Illocutionary force and modal particle in the syntax of Japanese -- What is it that keeps the rein on quotative modals so tight? A cross-linguistic perspective -- General index