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There are always referential alternatives possible to the speaker and addressee and to the observer in relation to any utterance.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPEAKER
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speaker
 n.  electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance
 n.  someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous)
Classic Sentence: (101 in 7 pages)
1  THE QUERULOUS DRONE ceased as I entered Frome's kitchen, and of the two women sitting there I could not tell which had been the speaker.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  John Wilkes casually but swiftly came back to his place beside the speaker, as if to impress on all present that this man was his guest and that, moreover, there were ladies present.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  The tone was neither aggressive nor conciliatory: it revealed nothing of the speaker's errand.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
4  The speaker was a poorly-dressed young woman with a bundle under her arm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
5  She tried to reply, to assure the speaker that she had not forgotten; but her voice failed in the effort, and she felt herself sinking under a great wave of physical weakness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
6  "Oh," said Jurgis, wonderingly, and stated at the speaker in awe.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
7  The speaker sank into one of the big armchairs, and Admiral Dewey crouched beneath it; he did not snarl again, but he never took his eyes off Jurgis.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
8  Through it all Jurgis sat still, motionless and rigid, his eyes fixed upon the speaker; he was trembling, smitten with wonder.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
9  And the speaker's voice broke suddenly, with the stress of his feelings; he stood with his arms stretched out above him, and the power of his vision seemed to lift him from the floor.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
10  But suddenly he stood up again, and Jurgis heard the chairman of the meeting saying that the speaker would now answer any questions which the audience might care to put to him.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
11  The speaker was gone; but there was a stage door that stood open, with people passing in and out, and no one on guard.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
12  The other started away, and the speaker looked at Jurgis again.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
13  Here the speaker paused an instant for breath.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31
14  He turned and beheld the speaker, whose color had changed to a deadly paleness, and whose lips quivered, gazing after him, with an expression of interest which immediately recalled him to her side.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7
15  Then the voice of the speaker fell, and lost the loud, animated tones of triumph with which he had enumerated their deeds of success and victory.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
16  A huge throng had gathered round the speaker.
17  The Society has an interesting talk by a visiting speaker every month.
18  I want to get near to the speaker, I can't hear what he's saying from the back.
19  I need hardly say what a pleasure it is to introduce our speaker.
20  The speaker can extemporize on any of a number of subjects.
21  It's my great pleasure to introduce tonight's speaker, Professor Lewis.
22  She was a brilliant public speaker.
23  The status and availability of the original speaker is therefore of great importance in deciding whether to publish the remark.
24  There are always referential alternatives possible to the speaker and addressee and to the observer in relation to any utterance.
25  Under Republican caucus rules, censuring Gingrich would force him to give up the office of speaker.
26  The secret service agents hustled the speaker out of the amphitheater.
27  With a smile the speaker, to bear the responsibility.
28  The speaker broke off, turning to stare at her as she stood in the doorway.
29  He asks occasional questions, but usually just about how the speaker came to a certain conclusion, it's the thought process more than the answer that seems to intrigue him.
30  The speaker asserts that something exists beneath language -- like bedrock beneath the skyscrapers, a sanity even beneath the dizziness.