Speaker

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The word speaker has a number of uses:

As a person:

  • A speaker can be anyone who speaks, especially when giving a speech, or lecture, especially a skilled orator (see also public speaking).
  • Speaker (politics), in politics, the presiding officer in many legislative assemblies.
  • In linguistics, a speaker is who utters a message, and is typically the center of deixis in the message; (s)he refers to himself or herself with the first-person pronoun.
  • Also in linguistics, a speaker is a user of a spoken language, as opposed to a signer, a user of a sign language; or anyone who masters and uses a language, while only a native speaker has it as his or her mother tongue.

As an object:

  • Computer speaker, a computer peripheral that reproduces speech and/or music.
  • Loudspeaker, an electronic device used to transform varying electric current into audible sound.
  • HMS Speaker was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy during World War II.

In pop culture:

  • "Speaker" is the name of a Scandinavian music group
  • 'Speaker' or 'The Speaker' is a common internet alias.
  • In the Ender's Game series, speaking is the practice of frankly describing the life of the deceased at his/her funeral. Speakers are treated with the respect accorded to a priest or cleric.
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