However, the opposite can also be true-An opponent can turn a positive statement into a bad one, if the speaker uses ambiguity ( intentionally or not ).

Where Whorf reasoned that the sophistication of a language controls the sophistication of the thoughts that can be expressed by a speaker of that language, Engelbart reasoned that the state of our current technology controls our ability to manipulate information, and that fact in turn will control our ability to develop new, improved technologies.

They are self-conscious about speaking formally and their rhetoric is shown to be flawed, as if Euripides was exploring the problematical nature of language and communication: " For speech points in three different directions at once, to the speaker, to the person addressed, to the features in the world it describes, and each of these directions can be felt as skewed.

In the Ike / Tina example, one might agree that Ike's thoughts pertain to Ike's mother and that Tina's thoughts pertain to Tina's but insist that this is because Ike thinks of that woman as his mother and we can capture this by saying that he thinks of her as ' the mother of the speaker '.

Suppose that a speaker can have the concept of water we do only if the speaker lives in a world that contains H < sub > 2 </ sub > O.

A northeastern-dialect speaker and a southwestern-dialect speaker can hardly communicate except through the standard language, mainly because of the differences in tone.

The authors call this concept a ‘ conduit metaphor .’ By this they meant that a speaker can put ideas or objects into words or containers, and then send them along a channel, or conduit, to a listener who takes that idea or object out of the container and makes meaning of it.

Viewed also as an aspect of speech, metaphor can serve as a device for persuading the listener or reader of the speaker or writer's argument or thesis, the so-called rhetorical metaphor.

The employment of strict General Canadian can actually hinder the speaker's ability to effectively socially mesh in rural areas as it signifies that the speaker is closely attached with the social structures of the non-rural world.

Having knowledge and understanding of the use and purpose of communication can help to make a more effective speaker communicate their message in an effectual way.

* ethos: how the character and credibility of a speaker can influence an audience to consider him / her to be believable.

The idea is the same as distance vector routing except that only speaker nodes in each autonomous system can communicate with each other.

* Audio: 3 square wave generators, 1 noise generator, the system has a mono speaker, but stereo sound can be had via headphone output

This involves looking at whether the writer or speaker has a neutral attitude, which can be seen through the use of positive or negative language.

Recognizing the speaker can simplify the task of translating speech in systems that have been trained on specific person's voices or it can be used to authenticate or verify the identity of a speaker as part of a security process.

He is displayed as hanged with a noose and the player can shoot him, making him explode in blood and authentic PC speaker sound effects.

This may sound like to an English speaker, but the lips can be seen compressing for the.

indicates that the speaker is dreading this moment ( which can be anything from an enemy attack to confronting an angry parent or friend ).

The speaker suggested that the desolation of a post-attack world would be too awful to face.

Two of the principal addresses were delivered by prominent Protestants, and when the speaker was a Catholic, one `` discussant '' on the dais tended to be of another religious persuasion.

State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.

Under Formby's plan, an appointee would be selected by a board composed of the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the House, attorney general and chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court.

The principal speaker will be Senator Stuart Symington, Democrat of Missouri.

Another speaker, William H. Draper, Jr., former Under Secretary of the Army and now with the Palo Alto venture capital firm of Draper, Gaither & Anderson, urged the U.S. to `` throw down the gauntlet of battle to communism and tell Moscow bluntly we won't be pushed around any more ''.

By the 27th century BC Egyptian writing had a set of some 24 hieroglyphs which are called uniliterals, to represent syllables that begin with a single consonant of their language, plus a vowel ( or no vowel ) to be supplied by the native speaker.

In a perfectly phonemic orthography there would be a consistent one-to-one correspondence between the letters and the phonemes, so that a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling.

A sign that may be lowered to the cheek level by an ASL speaker is more likely to be produced by a Black Sign Language speaker on the forehead, for example: teacher.

The nature of classifiers and their constructions allows the speaker to use them more frequently in narratives ; one study found this to be 17. 7 %.

If a ) testimonies conflict one another, b ) there are a small number of witnesses, c ) the speaker has no integrity, d ) the speaker is overly hesitant or bold, or e ) the speaker is known to have motives for lying, then the epistemologist has reason to be skeptical of the speaker's claims.

Under the 4th century version of democracy the roles of general and of key political speaker in the assembly tended to be filled by different persons.

Every time a speech sound is produced for a given phoneme, it will be slightly different from other utterances, even for the same speaker.

There are two types of allophones, based on whether a phoneme must be pronounced using a specific allophone in a specific situation, or whether the speaker has freedom to ( unconsciously ) choose which allophone he or she will use.

When a specific allophone ( from a set of allophones that correspond to a phoneme ) must be selected in a given context ( i. e. using a different allophone for a phoneme will cause confusion or make the speaker sound non-native ), the allophones are said to be complementary ( i. e. the allophones complement each other, and one is not used in a situation where the usage of another is standard ).

However, when a speaker wishes to emphasize that the individuals are acting separately, a plural pronoun may be employed with a singular or plural verb: the team takes their seats or the team take their seats, rather than the team takes its seats.

But if set to a frequency outside the human audible range then the ear can't perceive the square wave, only the difference between the speaker being switched on and off.

This set up stayed until the Counterparts tour, where he switched to Trace Elliot Quatra 4VR amplifiers, GP12 SMX preamps, with two single 18 speaker cabs and two 410 speaker cabs.

The microphones are pulled back, switched on, and released over the speaker, and gravity causes them to swing back and forth as pendulums.

Just as the first speaker came to the microphone, Jesse Falstein, a GLF member, and Michela switched off the lights and pulled the plug on the mike.

The use of multi-defined words requires the author or speaker to clarify their context, and sometimes elaborate on their specific intended meaning ( in which case, a less ambiguous term should have been used ).

Aaron ’ s function included the duties of speaker and implied personal dealings with the Egyptian royal court on behalf of Moses.

Furthermore, each individual speaker has their own style of signing depending on various factors, such as where they went to school, if they were mainstreamed ( see Mainstreaming ( education )), who taught them ASL, at what age they learned ASL, and how active they are in the Deaf Community.

Supporting literature includes: the work of social impact theory, which discusses persuasion in part through the number of persons engaging in influence ; as well as studies made on the relative influence of communicator credibility in different kinds of persuasion ; and examinations of the trustworthiness of the speaker.

In other cases, the speaker is able to select freely from free variant allophones, based on personal habit or preference.

Over the years, Hill has provided commentary on gender and race issues on national television programs, including 60 Minutes, Face the Nation and Meet the Press She has been a speaker on the topic commercial law of law as well as race and women's rights.

Atari Corp. changed the internal speaker and removed the thumb-stick on the control pad before releasing it as the Lynx, initially retailing in the US at US $ 179. 95.

Besides his use of the comic strip to voice his opinions and display his humor, Capp was a popular guest speaker at universities, and on radio and television.

Capp became a popular public speaker on college campuses, where he reportedly relished hecklers.

On 24 April 1826 over 1, 000 men and women, many armed, gathered at Whinney Hill in Clayton-le-Moors to listen to a speaker from where they marched on Sykes ’ s Mill at Higher Grange Lane, near the site of the modern police station and Magistrate ’ s Courts, and smashed over 60 looms.

If the program is given to someone who speaks only English to execute the instructions of the program by hand, then in theory, the English speaker would also be able to carry on a conversation in written Chinese.

The lecture that evening was on " Fairy Life ", and at the end of the meeting Polly Wright showed the two fairy photographs taken by her daughter and niece to the speaker.

The Commons on 12 October 1659, cashiered General John Lambert and other officers, and installed Fleetwood as chief of a military council under the authority of the speaker.

The official band logo, designed in 1976 by artist Kosh, was first seen on their 1976 album A New World Record and is based on a 1946 Wurlitzer jukebox model 4008 speaker.

At the receiving end, a handset ’ s speaker was attached to an acoustic coupler ( a microphone ), and a demodulator converted the varying tone into a variable current that controlled the mechanical movement of a pen or pencil to reproduce the image on a blank sheet of paper on an identical drum rotating at the same rate.