What is presupposed in this sense is not asserted by the speaker but is nevertheless understood by the hearer. |
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Affirmatives with both of the options can mark a contrast between speaker and hearer, but mostly in literature. |
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The underlying system of rules also enables the hearer to understand what the speaker said. |
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As far as the feature interlocuter is concerned, any lexical item with a feature marking can be either a hearer or a speaker. |
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It is the word that causes the hearer to understand and lead a worthy life. |
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The teachers served to initiate the catechumens through different stages, until the hearer was adept enough to be entrusted with the mysteries of the faith. |
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I know I always have to move slowly into a conversation with a new reader or hearer. |
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In addition, the hearer has to look for the contents or assumptions the speaker ostensively intends her to consider. |
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That is, discourse always involves a speaker or writer and a hearer or reader as well as something said about some reality. |
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In most cases, the speaker, not the hearer, is to blame when a message is confused. |
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The speaker knows the referent doesn't have the required status, but uses the form anyway because she knows the hearer can easily accommodate. |
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The final result still possesses for the hearer the dewy freshness of first inspiration. |
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There is an intuition that indefinites have specific readings in which they are referential and where the speaker can identify the referent, but the hearer cannot. |
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The retailer of the anecdote intends it to impart a message, the success of which depends on the degree to which the hearer regards the anecdote as factual. |
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This has the effect of distancing the speaker from the hearer. |
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My suggestion is to become a doer instead of just a hearer. |
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There is no seer beside him, no hearer beside him, no comprehender beside him, no knower beside him. |
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Suppose that Professor Turk has won a prestigious grant and wants to impress his hearer with this fact, without saying flat out that he won it. |
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A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live. |
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Whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. |
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It is to cause the hearer to understand and live a worthy life. |
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According to anti-reductionism, then, a hearer doesn't need positive support for testimonial reliability, or the speaker's sincerity, to justifiedly believe what the speaker says. |
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He accepted the invitation with evident pleasure, and, coming forward, began a simple address, which at once fascinated every little hearer, and hushed the room into silence. |
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In the end the example for this method is offered by the Lord himself who loved to speak in parables and take off from concrete life to capture the attention of the hearer and thus sow his message. |
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God speaks not the idle and unconcerned hearer, but to the vigilant and arrect. |
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The deepest level of communication takes place in the life of communion, where the gap between speaker and hearer is bridged by the imperative of this mutual existence. |
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In addition, Lutherans believe that God's Word is freely accessible to every reader or hearer of ordinary intelligence, without requiring any special education. |
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When the tag question has a rising tone, it shows that speaker is not quite convinced of the statement, and he needs the comment of the hearer on the state of the fact. |
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