hearably
English edit
Etymology edit
From hearable + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hearably (uncountable)
- (formal, especially sociology or sociolinguistics) Audibly, auditorily; discernable through hearing.
- 1898 March, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Stirring Times in Austria”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume XCVI, number DLXXIV, New York: Harper and Brothers, page 534:
- On high sat the President imploring order, with his long hands put together as in prayer, and his lips visibly but not hearably speaking. At intervals he grasped his bell and swung it up and down with vigor, adding its keen clamor to the storm weltering there below.
- 1984, John Heritage, “A change-of-state token and aspects of its sequential placement”, in J. Maxwell Atkinson, John Heritage, editors, Structures of Social Action[1], New York: Cambridge University Press:
- By contrast, in (50), a hearably complete answer to a question that could have been referring to a similar information gap is continuation-receipted.
- 2022 April 18, Angela Cora Garcia, “Interactional challenges for non-native speakers of English in emergency telephone calls”, in Journal of Pragmatics, volume 193, Elsevier, , pages 222–234:
- Case studies of three problematic NNS/NS calls from a collection of emergency service calls were conducted using a conversation analytic approach. These calls were selected from publicly available recordings which were made by callers who were hearably NNS of English.
Translations edit
discernable through hearing — see audibly