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What they learned [...] was to speak on the phones in such a way that your hearer couldn't help but understand what you meant, and in such a way that you, speaking, had no choice but to express what you meant, they learned to make speech transparent, like glass, so that through the words the face is seen truly.
john crowley— Engine Summer (1979), chapter 1.4
The insult was thrown out with a peculiarly reckless air; it astounded the hearer, who sat for an instant with staring eyes and lips apart; then the blood rushed to his cheeks.
george gissing— Eve's Ransom (1895), ch. 1
The speaker must choose a comprehensible [verstandlich] expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.
jürgen habermas— Habermas (1979) cited in: Werner Ulrich (1983) Critical heuristics of social planning. p.123
In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect by means of getting the hearer to recognize his intention to produce that effect; and furthermore, if he is using the words literally, he intends this recognition to be achieved in virtue of the fact that the rules for using the expressions he utters associate the expression with the production of that effect.
john searle— P. 45 (Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (1969))
He ne'er presumed to make an error clearer; In short, there never was a better hearer.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Don Juan (1818-24), Canto XIV, Stanza 37.
Christian preaching … does not offer a doctrine which can be accepted either by reason or by a sacrificium intellectus . Christian preaching is kerygma , that is, a proclamation addressed not to the theoretical reason, but to the hearer as a self.
— Rudolf Bultmann, “Jesus Christ and Mythology,” Interpreting Faith for the Modern Era, p. 300
A young man is not an appropriate hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life.
— Aristotle, in Jonathan Lear Aristotle: The Desire to Understand, Cambridge University Press, 11 February 1988159 p.159
