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speaking

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adj. capable of or involving speech or speaking; "human beings--the speaking animals"; "a speaking part in the play" [syn: speaking(a) ] [ant: nonspeaking ] capable of speech; "the speaking animal" [syn: speaking(a) , speech-endowed ] n. the utterance of ...

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Speaking \Speak"ing\, n. The act of uttering words. Public declamation; oratory.

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In sociolinguistics , SPEAKING or the SPEAKING model , is a model socio-linguistic study (represented as a mnemonic ) developed by Dell Hymes . It is a tool to assist the identification and labeling of components of interactional linguistics that was driven ...

Usage examples of speaking.

That is the fidelity of a woman speaking, for Sier Valence has already said that he has abjured his oaths for the sake of this woman, and she does not deny it.

Then calling on the name of Allah, he gave a last keen cunning sweep with the blade, and following that, the earth awfully quaked and groaned, as if speaking in the abysmal tongue the Mastery of the Event to all men.

This was speaking like a man of business, and the arguments adduced were unanswerable.

Adikor, speaking directly to the adjudicator, before the orbiting Bolbay blocked his line of sight again.

During the last week or two Ward had obviously changed much, abandoning his attempts at affability and speaking only in hoarse but oddly repellent whispers on the few occasions that he ventured forth.

I had only to walk in, there was no house in Agios Georgios where I would not be welcome, so young and pretty, and speaking such good Greek .

Everyone stopped speaking to stare agog at the man who had uttered this bizarre snippet.

There Amir waited with the Aman and four Arabic speaking men, selected from the crew to witness the wedding.

As the Saint prostrated himself alongside Amity, he could hear the voice of a man, apparently speaking to the dog.

I can bring mysell to ask a favour of ane that winna sae muckle as ware a word on me, to tell me if he hears me speaking till him.

Generally speaking, it would be more advisable to become a chatterer and keep an anecdotal note-book.

In the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, there is no mention of any anointment prior to his entry into Jerusalem, so, according to them, it would appear that he was not, technically speaking, the messiah at that point.

We moved then to the question of how her aphonia, which I had wrongly thought at first to be connected to her anxiety about speaking a foreign language3 while temporarily removed from the company of the man she loved.

Rhetoric was a way of speaking, arguing, persuading, that was necessary in a democracy where the assemblies were large, where there were no microphones, and where it was necessary to sway others in debate.

While the clergyman was speaking, with flashing eyes and commanding voice, the seaman turned ashy pale, and drew his shoulders together like a cat preparing to defend her life.