Article Authoring Tag Library NISO JATS version 0.4

<speaker>

Speaker

One who utters one segment of a speech or dialog.

Remarks

For example, the computer “HAL” is the speaker in the following exchange “HAL: ‘Hi Dave’”

Attributes

content-type Type of Content
specific-use Specific Use
xml:lang Language

Related Elements

A <speech> is a container element that names the person, object or group speaking (<speaker> element), followed by one complete utterance, modeled as one or more paragraphs (<p>). These paragraphs need not be long text constructions, but may contain only a few words, as in the example “Hi Dave” above.

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  speaker      (#PCDATA %speaker-elements;)*                >

Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | degrees | given-names | prefix | surname | suffix | fn | target | xref)*

Description

Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

<speech>

Example

               
...
<body>
...
<p>The participants understood the purpose of their peer
response groups to be finding mistakes or problems in each
other&rsquo;s essays. ...Clara, one of the Chinese-speakers,
explains why she no longer believes the initial positive comments:
<speech>
<speaker>S:</speaker>
<p>I think Aeenoy start this way. I think she always do
this way, like say some good thing first. And then I know
the bad thing is coming.</p>
</speech>
<speech>
<speaker>I:</speaker>
<p>So, why doe she do that?</p>
</speech>
<speech>
<speaker>S:</speaker>
<p>I think it gives somebody self-esteem ...</p></speech>
</p>
...
</body>
...

Module

JATS-para0.ent

Article Authoring Tag Library NISO JATS version 0.4

Version of March 2011