<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’”

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.

Attributes

content-type Type of Content
id Document Internal Identifier
specific-use Specific Use
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language

Content Model

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

Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | email | ext-link | uri | inline-supplementary-material | related-article | related-object | hr | bold | fixed-case | italic | monospace | overline | overline-start | overline-end | roman | sans-serif | sc | serif | strike | underline | underline-start | underline-end | ruby | alternatives | inline-graphic | private-char | chem-struct | inline-formula | tex-math | mml:math | abbrev | index-term | index-term-range-end | milestone-end | milestone-start | named-content | styled-content | fn | target | xref | sub | sup | x | degrees | given-names | prefix | surname | suffix)*

Description

Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

<speech>

Example 

    ...
<sec>...
<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>
</sec>
...

Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) Version 2.0 Tag Library

Version of February 2016

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