The word 'hearers' is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to refer to people who are listening or paying attention to something being spoken or presented. Example: The speaker captivated the audience, keeping all the hearers engaged with his powerful message.
So far he has done neither.In recent weeks his government has taken small but telling steps to rein in reforms in education and health, and Mr Brown's conference speech left its hearers little the wiser as to where he might be heading.
But Mr Carr has passionately defended every stage of the trumpeter's progress, believing that his over-riding responsibility was to his hearers and to the new cultural awareness he was trying to work into his music.
Hearers infer what speakers implicate.
The general idea seems to be this: Previous theorists of rhetoric gave most of their attention to methods outside the subject; they taught how to slander, how to arouse emotions in the audience, or how to distract the attention of the hearers from the subject.
Pragmatics will have as its domain speakers' communicative intentions, the uses of language that require such intentions, and the strategies that hearers employ to determine what these intentions and acts are, so that they can understand what the speaker intends to communicate.
Reimer 1995 challenges Bach and Harnish on the ground that hearers do not seem to impute assertoric force to the indicative sentences speakers utter with performative effect; her criticism would evidently carry over to Ginet's proposal as well.
If the sounds we hear have spatial locations, they can be thought to be located either where the material sources are (distal theories), or where the hearers are (proximal theories), or somewhere in between (medial theories).
The reason is that he takes conventions to be regularities in action, and it is hard to say in general what actions are taken by hearers.
Speakers who use (6) and (7) in the typical way, and hearers who understand them, do not appear to have such principles in mind in any way.
Speakers do not respond mechanically to hearers' simple inquiries.
The vast, shared collection of beliefs that, in Davidson's words, are "too dull, trite, or familiar to stand notice," (1984, 199) dwarf by comparison the set of beliefs likely to be expressed in testimony, since the latter are presented only on the presumption of their informativeness to hearers.
