Sentence examples for mind of the speaker from inspiring English sources
The speech/writing opposition derives from a pervasive picture of meaning that equates linguistic meaning with the ideas and intentions in the mind of the speaker or author.
2. Certain Ideas in the Mind of the Speaker.
4. Those signs put together by affirmation or negation, otherwise than the Ideas they stand for, are in the mind of the Speaker.
The notion of coloring here comes from Frege who distinguished in "The thought" between the truth condition of a statement and those aspects of the statement which might provide information about the state of mind of the speaker or hearer but do not contribute to its truth conditions.
If this year's conference is a metaphor, we're not in a visionary time -- the economy was very much on the minds of the speakers at D, and much of the conversation was about monetization and profit margins.
"The comment about the judge the other day just was out of left field, from my mind," Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, said Friday, on a Milwaukee radio show.
And as "A Satisfied Mind" poured out of the speakers, I usually sat in one of the chairs at the table and typed away.
Alternatively, one can consider the speaker's mind as the message source and the combination of the speaker's brain, vocal system, and telephone mouthpiece as the encoder.
Thus for effective use there must be some act of the speaker's mind expressed by the special phrase "I promise" and its synonyms, and our moral obligation results from this act of the mind.
Jay Z's "Empire State of Mind" blared from the speakers and images of the Statue of Liberty flashed on a screen beside the stage as thousands of Thai schoolchildren cheered.
Hello is a greeting (the phatic function), that when uttered with sufficient portent, can inform of the seriousness of a situation (the referential function); when weighted with emotion can warn of the speaker's frame of mind (expressive function); when delivered with sufficient surprise or challenge can invite or demand an explanation (the directive function); and so on.
