LOCUTION


Meaning of LOCUTION in English

noun

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a Yiddish locution

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Even that locution , his appointment, seemed odd to him.

His locution puzzled me, disturbed me, but I was a guest at his table so I said nothing.

It seemed an extremely odd locution for a scientist to be using about contaminated water.

Petrey seems to equate locution with semantics and illocution with pragmatics, but does not say so explicitly.

Speech act theory assumes that there is one neat, verbally expressible illocution to each locution .

This is most serious during the discussion of locution and illocution.

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