Speaker

Definition

In a speech act, a speaker is typically the individual providing an audience or listener with the oral speech performance. Therefore, this role serves a clear function in the building of discourse. (Gilkison, 2020, p. 5)

Examples

Example from the Hul’q’umi’num Context of How a Speaker Story-Tells to an Audience (from Gilkison, 2020, p. 7)

References

Gilkison, Z. (2020). How what was said was said: Quotation in Hul’q’umi’num narrative performance. [Master’s thesis, Simon Fraser University].