Sentence examples for speaker attention from inspiring English sources

8 32 a.m.: The urgent call goes out over the loud speaker: "Attention.

Try helping your child solve a mathematical problem while engaged in cooking a complex dish – there will be hesitations, pauses, repetitions because the material situation is 'dividing' speaker attention.

There is also the possibility of the material environment influencing the talk, particularly its flow and organization: Try helping your child solve a mathematical problem while engaged in cooking a complex dish – there will be hesitations, pauses, repetitions because the material situation is 'dividing' speaker attention.

Such disruptions are suggested to affect speakers' attention on a referent, lowering its activation level and favoring the use of a more explicit form of reference an overt pronoun rather than zero anaphora.

Mr. Whyland said that the Kellner episode was first brought to the speaker's attention on June 7 by Assemblywoman Deborah J. Glick, another Manhattan Democrat.

Some of the main introductory textbooks dealing with this discipline hardly mention style as a variable, and, when they do, they usually understand style as a reflection of the speaker's attention to his/her own speech.

Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, drew attention to the BigAppleRx prescription drug discount card, established by Council legislation, which she said had saved more than 125,000 New Yorkers a total of $15,546,017 on prescription medications, or an overall savings of 47 percent, since May 2011.

That's the hundreds of MPs who jeer and cajole and feign laughter at weak jokes and jump up and down trying to get the Speaker's attention – they were worried that a comedy show might take this footage and somehow might make them look undignified.

This is intended to show more than just that the direction of the speaker's attention is a possible source of evidence for what that speaker means.

A House of Commons spokesman said: "There are many demands on the Speaker's attention whilst he is in the Chair, particularly during Questions to the Prime Minister.

One speaker called attention to "tantalizing morsels" of convergence that have emerged between chemical intolerance and addiction.