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What is presupposed in this sense is not asserted by the speaker but is nevertheless understood by the hearer.
Affirmatives with both of the options can mark a contrast between speaker and hearer, but mostly in literature.
The underlying system of rules also enables the hearer to understand what the speaker said.
As far as the feature interlocuter is concerned, any lexical item with a feature marking can be either a hearer or a speaker.
It is the word that causes the hearer to understand and lead a worthy life.
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.
I know I always have to move slowly into a conversation with a new reader or hearer.
In addition, the hearer has to look for the contents or assumptions the speaker ostensively intends her to consider.
That is, discourse always involves a speaker or writer and a hearer or reader as well as something said about some reality.
In most cases, the speaker, not the hearer, is to blame when a message is confused.
The speaker knows the referent doesn't have the required status, but uses the form anyway because she knows the hearer can easily accommodate.
The final result still possesses for the hearer the dewy freshness of first inspiration.
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.
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.
This has the effect of distancing the speaker from the hearer.
My suggestion is to become a doer instead of just a hearer.
There is no seer beside him, no hearer beside him, no comprehender beside him, no knower beside him.
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.
A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live.
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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Examples from Classical Literature
His speeches have a freedom and a rhythmical flow which captivate the hearer.
His assumption that his absence had been noticed rather nettled his hearer.
The man spoke earnestly, but a third person and extraneous hearer could hardly avoid being struck by the bathetic conclusion.
If he had expected any display from his hearer he must have been disappointed.
It is relative to the knowledge of the writer and reader or of the speaker and hearer.
At this time I was blessed with a hearer the like of whom I shall never get again.
And the joy is redoubled when this same song is wafted back to him as hearer.
When they are uttered, the hearer at once knows what kind of objects are to be spoken of.
Why, a soliloquist in a crowd can hardly but be overheard, and without much reproach to the hearer.
It was evident that he was both impressed and certain of impressing his hearer.
Never did funeral knell, never did alarm-bell, produce a greater effect on the hearer.
I see that men of God have from time to time walked among men and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.
The poet, the prophet, has a higher value for what he utters than any hearer, and therefore it gets spoken.
This speech, pedantically delivered, probably seemed to Monsieur Roguin so fine that his hearer could not at once understand it.
He took his hearer right up to the moment when the truth had come home to him.
He paused, evidently expecting his hearer to make some comment.
The Epic has here an advantage, and one that conduces to grandeur of effect, to diverting the mind of the hearer, and relieving the story with varying episodes.
He is the Hearer, the answerer and the Lover of importunate prayer.
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