Chapter 3
Speech roles revisited
Article outline
- 3.1Who frames speech roles?: A note on the speaker
- 3.2Macro and micro levels: Speech event, turn, utterance
- The speech event: A macro frame
- Turns and utterances: A micro frame
- 3.3Public and audience: A macro perspective on hearers’ types
- 3.3.1The public attending the debate
- Assumption 1: The addressee is a ratified hearer. MPs are ratified hearers,
so they are addressees
- Assumption 2: The addressee is encoded through the second-person paradigm.
MPs are addressed through the second person, so they are
addressees
- 3.3.2The absent audience
- Assumption 1: The absent audience consists of heterogeneous and fictive
members
- Assumption 2: The absent audience consists of overhearers
- Assumption 3: The absent audience consists of targets
- 3.4Addressee vs. target: A micro perspective on speech roles
- Assumption 1: Aiming one’s utterance at the addressee is the prototypical
communication situation
- Assumption 2: The target is the intended recipient
- Assumption 3: The target is the illocutionary destination of the
message
- 3.5A tentative definition of target as a speech role
- Conclusion
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Notes