Example sentences of "speaker [be] talking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be clear that the spatial location identified by here in each of these expressions could be interpreted as a series of concentric rings spreading out from the speaker and encompassing different amounts of physical space , but the interpretation of the spatial range of the expression here on any particular occasion of use will have to be sought in the context of what the speaker is talking about . |
| 2 | We might suggest that the speaker is talking about a joke or a prank . |
| 3 | Thus one account of what this speaker is talking about would contain the following elements : a joke — the taw — smoke — into houses — out of houses — people get trolley — the use of the trolley . |
| 4 | Yet it is a piece of knowledge relevant to what the speaker is talking about and , importantly , knowledge which the speaker assumes is available , to his hearer . |
| 5 | Yet our interpretation of what a speaker is talking about is inevitably based on how he structures what he is saying . |
| 6 | Native speakers can usually still understand what is said , if necessary by guessing at inaudible or unrecognisable words on the basis of their knowledge of what the speaker is talking about ; foreign learners of English , on the other hand , having in general less ‘ common ground ’ or shared knowledge with the speaker , often find that these subordinate tone-units , with their ‘ throw-away ’ , parenthetic style , cause serious difficulties in understanding . |
| 7 | You should however show something of the audience , particularly in the early stages of the lecture , otherwise someone viewing the recording has no idea who the speaker is talking to . |
| 8 | However , even if we take that summarising phrase as one possible expression of the topic of speaker R 's lengthy contribution , we have surely not adequately characterised what this speaker was talking about . |
| 9 | I also recognised that I was expected to take responsibility for the interpretation of the utterance , exploring a wide range of contextual assumptions ( about hospitals , illness , operations , and convalescence ) and deriving a wide range of contextual implications — not only a wider range than I would have derived had the newsreader just produced [ 14b ] , but a wider range than I would have derived if I had realised that the speaker was talking about the pound . |