noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a Yiddish locution
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even that locution , his appointment, seemed odd to him.
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His locution puzzled me, disturbed me, but I was a guest at his table so I said nothing.
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It seemed an extremely odd locution for a scientist to be using about contaminated water.
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Petrey seems to equate locution with semantics and illocution with pragmatics, but does not say so explicitly.
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Speech act theory assumes that there is one neat, verbally expressible illocution to each locution .
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This is most serious during the discussion of locution and illocution.