Type(s) of:

• actant₂

Synonym(s):

• addresser
• locutor
• source₁
• speaker₁
• transmitter

Related Term(s):

• co-enunciator
• encoder
• enunciator₁
• first person
• interlocutor
• narrator
• utterer

Antonym(s):

• receiver
• recipient

Source(s):

WALES 19899
HARTMANN & STORK 197242
ES5-8
COLAPIETRO 19935, 10-11 (= communicator), 179
NÖTH 1990176 (= communicator), 372
MARTIN & RINGHAM 200619, 178
FINCH 2000202
RICHARDS etal. 199264
LEVINSON 198316 (= communicator)
SPERBER & WILSON 19884 (encoder)
LYONS 197733
GREIMAS 1983[trans.]203-204
ELL2686

• WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 
• HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.
• Encyclopedia of Semiotics. (1998) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• COLAPIETRO, Vincent M. (1993) Glossary of Semiotics. New York: Paragon House.
• NÖTH, Winfried. (1990) Handbook of Semiotics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 
• MARTIN, Bronwen & RINGHAM, Felizitas. (2006) Key Terms in Semiotics. London: Continuum.
• FINCH, Geoffrey. (2000) Linguistic Terms and Concepts. New York: St. Martin's Press.
• RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT,  J. & WEBER,  H.  (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.
• LEVINSON, Stephen C. (1983) Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
• SPERBER, Dan & WILSON, Deirdre. (1988) Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press.
• LYONS, John. (1977) Semantics. Vols. 1 & 2. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
• GREIMAS, A.J. (1983 [trans.]) Structural Semantics: An Attempt at a Method. Trans. by Daniele McDowell, Ronald Schleifer & Alan Velie.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 
• The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Domain:

Communication Theory

Narrative Semiotics/Literary Semiotics (Wales)