<speech>

Speech

Definition

One exchange (a single “speech”) in a real or imaginary conversation between two or more entities, for example, between a an interviewer and the person being interviewed, between a nurse (or doctor) and a patient, between a person and a computer, etc. Each time a new speaker takes over, a new <speech> starts, which names the speaker (<speaker>) and then contains one or more paragraphs containing what that speaker said.

Remarks

This DTD did not model an over-arching container element (such as a dialog or exchange) to contain a complete exchange between two parties, because there are so many different ways in which speeches are contained in observed journal samples. Therefore, in this Suite, a speech is not part of any particular larger element structure; a speech is just one identified fragment of the whole conversation.

Authoring and Conversion Note: A Speech is modeled as a full paragraph, even if what is spoken is only a few words.

Authoring and Conversion Note: In the circumstance in which many voices are heard as one, for example, “All the Kings Men” or “Tom and Jerry”, that is considered to be a single speaker.

Attribute

xml:lang Language

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

The following, in order:

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