<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 <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.

Model Information

Content Model

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

Description

Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

<speech> Speech

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>
... 


Module

para.ent