Example sentences for: hearer

How can you use “hearer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A similar statement in Malaysia could be This morning I hantar my baby tu dekat babysitter tu lah , in which the first and second Malay elements mean took and to the, and the particle lah shows that speaker and hearer are socially close.

  • Yet despite the hearer's conventional groan and the perpetrator's equally conventional apology, everyone knows that verbal play gives a great deal of pleasure, justifying the great deal of ingenuity that goes into producing it.

  • This curious aspect is further explained in these terms: “lest Speaker lose face by offending Hearer's sensibilities” [p.

  • I am not persuaded that a speaker who offends a hearer's sensibilities directly suffers loss of face: loss of face could come about only by some retaliatory action of the hearer's.

  • For example, the sentence Pass to the left of the tower is ambiguous because left can mean either the speaker's left or the hearer's left; but further confusion is also possible, because left can sound very much like west .


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