What is a speaker?

Definition
	A speaker is the utterer of a message.

Discussion
	A speaker is typically the deictic center of his or her own deictic references. These are grammaticalized in first person morphemes.

Concept module: speaker
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In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
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