Speech that attacks or disparages a person or group of persons on the basis of origin, race, nationality, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

(linguistics) A group of people sharing a language, or a particular way of using that language

Speech that concentrates on the speaker's thoughts and intentions, disregarding an interruption by the listener.

plural of speech act

plural of disfluency

An early phonetic alphabet, devised by Alexander Melville Bell in 1867.

(psychology) speech that is pressured, as in pressure of speech

(psychology, psychiatry) a proclivity to speak with rapidity and intensity without apparent motivation, commonly seen as a marker for a manic episode of bipolar disorder

(computing) The function of a front-end software system which processes input in the form of spoken language into a sequence of phonemes or characters, or into electronic commands for a computing system.

plural of opening speech