What is a participant role?

Definition
	A participant role is a relation that persons have to each other with regards to their involvement in a speech event.

Kinds
	Here are some kinds of participant roles:
	What is an addressee? What is an audience? What is a bystander? What is a ratified participant? What is source as a participant role? What is a speaker? What is a target? What is an unratified participant?

Sources
	Levinson 1983 68
	Crystal 1985 221

Context for this page:

Concept module: participant role
In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): P
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)
In bookshelf: Linguistics

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