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speaker (dict)
Speaker
The word
speaker
has a number of uses:
In
politics
the
Speaker
is the presiding officer in many legislative bodies.
A
loudspeaker
is an electronic device used to transform varying
electric current
into audible sound.
In
linguistics
, a speaker is the utterer of a message, and is typically the center of
deixis
in the message. A speaker is referred with the first-person
pronoun
by himself or herself.
Also in linguistics, a speaker is a user of a
spoken language
, as opposed to a signer, a user of a
sign language
.
A speaker can also be someone giving a
speech
, or
lecture
, see also
public speaking
.
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