Linguists agree that speakers and listeners have their own goals for simplifying communication: Speakers prefer a small pool of words that they can quickly retrieve from memory, whereas listeners prefer words with a single, unambiguous meaning--and that requires a large vocabulary.
The telesurveillance technology permitted, among various functionalities, bi-directional communication (speaker-receiver) between the patient and the response center.
In every form of verbal communication, speakers are confronted with choosing the right word at the right time.
If, on the other hand, the same words have the same meanings, it must follow that the words play the same conceptual roles, in which case there would be no need for communication; each speaker would understand and believe exactly what every other speaker does.
Pronunciation continues to grow in importance because of its central roles in speech communication and speaker identity.
In face-to-face communication a speaker's articulatory movements are visible.
Particular attention must be paid to crowd management and communication (loud speakers, signs, maps and other plans).
It is the second language for most speakers, acquired rather early and in a natural language environment (e.g., as the language of instruction in school, or in everyday communication between speakers of different languages in one country).
Ancient Chinese semantic theories explained the use of general terms (see Section 4 of the entry Mohist Canons), and thus communication, by speakers' ability to distinguish (bian) things or stuff (shi) as of the same or different kinds (lei) and to apply the same name (ming) to all stuff of a kind.
The telesurveillance technology used in this study is characterized by its bi-directional communication capabilities (speaker-receiver) between the patient and the calling center.
