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Speaker
The word speaker has a number of uses:
- In politics the Speaker is the presiding officer in many legislative bodies.
- A loudspeaker is an electronic device used to transform varying electric current into audible sound.
- In linguistics, a speaker is the utterer of a message, and is typically the center of deixis in the message. A speaker is referred with the first-person pronoun by himself or herself.
- Also in linguistics, a speaker is a user of a spoken language, as opposed to a signer, a user of a sign language.
- A speaker can also be someone giving a speech, or lecture, see also public speaking.
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