Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD Tag Library 1.0

<speaker>

Speaker

Definition

One who utters one segment of a speech (a dialog), for example, the computer “HAL” in the exchange “HAL: ‘Hi Dave’”.

Related Elements

A <source> is a container element that names the person, object, or group speaking <speaker>, followed by one complete utterance, modeled as one or more paragraphs.

Model Description

Any combination of:

Tagged 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>
...
</back>
</article>

Module

para.ent

Journal Archiving and Interchange DTD Tag Library 1.0

March 31, 2003