Chapter 3. Speech roles revisited

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Chapter 3
Speech roles revisited

Published online: 12 October 2021

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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
Notes