Definition of locution in English:

locution

noun ləˈkjuːʃ(ə)nləˈkjuʃ(ə)n

1A word or phrase, especially with regard to style or idiom.
措辞；惯用语
Example sentencesExamples
- What is chilling is that Mullen's masterfully deformed locutions sound more like clarifying paraphrases than like parodies.
- That locution is uttered as if it is some fatal sequence of human conduct.
- This depends on the interpreter's culturally specific understanding of the social significance of the locution.
- Perhaps ‘unavoidable circumstances’ would be a better locution?
- It is easy to paraphrase another author's ideas or incorporate his or her locutions without crediting the source.
- Even the most resistive of these locutions, however, do not explicitly embrace feminism or seek any larger political context.
- One of my least favorite locutions in politics is the statement by an official or politician that someone's criticism of government policy is ‘unhelpful.’
- We are not using locutions of that kind in this case for reasons found in the history of the argument.
- Her locutions seem to have neither introductions nor conclusions but begin from a place of inquiry and intimacy.
- For these reasons, we try to help our students understand the pejorative implications of such stereotypical locutions and believe that what they say matters.
- Occasionally, we shall employ the locution, ‘land rent,’ which is technically redundant; we do so merely to provide recurring emphasis as a reminder of what is meant.
- These locutions are determinedly descriptive.
- This locution is recurrent in the accumulating commentary on Desiderio's paintings.
- At any rate, my defense of Barber's diction, if it needs one, is that not being graced or burdened with the role of authorized biographer, he may have felt authorized to employ unofficial, slangy locutions.
- The downside of using both locutions is redundancy; the upside is precision and clarity, though I realize that the trade-off here is controversial.
- His earliest plays were political, ridiculing the wooden locutions of communist rhetoric.
- What I do remember about Eddie Rademeyer is a particular locution he favoured when a question of his was met with a blank stare by some poor uncomprehending pupil.
- Today, any state-sponsored eugenic ideology would surely face considerable opposition, but instead we have (to use the barbarous locution now common) ‘privatized’ eugenic decisions.
- This reduces ‘constitutional right’ to a fancy locution for ‘rights I think are important’.
- In one of the courtrooms here, the air is thick with quaint-sounding British courtroom locutions.
Synonyms
wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, style, vocabulary, terminology, expressions, turns of phrase, parlance, manner of speaking, manner of writing, way of talking, form of expression, mode of expression, usages, locutions, idiolect, choice of words, rhetoric, oratory
1. 1.1mass noun A person's style of speech.
  个人言语风格
  his impeccable locution
  他说话滴水不漏。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Like the protagonists in the classic Hollywood films of Anthony Mann, Hawks or Ford, the leads of Collateral express themselves through their action as much as their locution.
  Synonyms
  oratory, rhetoric, grandiloquence, magniloquence
2An utterance regarded in terms of its intrinsic meaning or reference, as distinct from its function or purpose in context.
内在涵义话语（指从其内在意义的角度考虑的话语，有别于话语的功能和目的）。比较ILLOCUTION，PERLOCUTION
Compare with illocution, perlocution
Example sentencesExamples
- The surface grammar of power locutions can be misleading in numerous ways.
- For our paraphrastic procedure to be comprehensive, it must work with contexts containing explicitly comparative locutions.
- The central claim of the prosentential theory is that ‘x is true’ functions as a prosentence-forming operator rather than a property-ascribing locution.

Derivatives

locutionary

adjective

Thus the same locutionary action is interpreted as two quite different illocutionary actions.
Example sentencesExamples
- The paternalistic tradition thus constructs a simulacrum of male discursive empowerment which multiplies locutionary authority while eradicating perlocutionary agency.
- Austin distinguishes among three components in a total speech act: the locutionary act, the illocutionary act, and the perlocutionary act.
- The boy's self-realization focused on the locutionary and literary power of the word.
- In this article we analyze the grammar of codes of ethics as a written locutionary act, and attempt to determine their implicit illocutionary and perlocutionary values.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin locutio(n-), from loqui 'speak'.

Rhymes

ablution, absolution, allocution, attribution, circumlocution, circumvolution, Confucian, constitution, contribution, convolution, counter-revolution, destitution, dilution, diminution, distribution, electrocution, elocution, evolution, execution, institution, interlocution, irresolution, Lilliputian, perlocution, persecution, pollution, prosecution, prostitution, restitution, retribution, Rosicrucian, solution, substitution, volution

Definition of locution in US English:

locution

nounləˈkjuʃ(ə)nləˈkyo͞oSH(ə)n

1A word or phrase, especially with regard to style or idiom.
措辞；惯用语
Example sentencesExamples
- In one of the courtrooms here, the air is thick with quaint-sounding British courtroom locutions.
- The downside of using both locutions is redundancy; the upside is precision and clarity, though I realize that the trade-off here is controversial.
- That locution is uttered as if it is some fatal sequence of human conduct.
- It is easy to paraphrase another author's ideas or incorporate his or her locutions without crediting the source.
- This reduces ‘constitutional right’ to a fancy locution for ‘rights I think are important’.
- What is chilling is that Mullen's masterfully deformed locutions sound more like clarifying paraphrases than like parodies.
- Even the most resistive of these locutions, however, do not explicitly embrace feminism or seek any larger political context.
- Her locutions seem to have neither introductions nor conclusions but begin from a place of inquiry and intimacy.
- Occasionally, we shall employ the locution, ‘land rent,’ which is technically redundant; we do so merely to provide recurring emphasis as a reminder of what is meant.
- Today, any state-sponsored eugenic ideology would surely face considerable opposition, but instead we have (to use the barbarous locution now common) ‘privatized’ eugenic decisions.
- At any rate, my defense of Barber's diction, if it needs one, is that not being graced or burdened with the role of authorized biographer, he may have felt authorized to employ unofficial, slangy locutions.
- For these reasons, we try to help our students understand the pejorative implications of such stereotypical locutions and believe that what they say matters.
- These locutions are determinedly descriptive.
- Perhaps ‘unavoidable circumstances’ would be a better locution?
- This locution is recurrent in the accumulating commentary on Desiderio's paintings.
- One of my least favorite locutions in politics is the statement by an official or politician that someone's criticism of government policy is ‘unhelpful.’
- His earliest plays were political, ridiculing the wooden locutions of communist rhetoric.
- We are not using locutions of that kind in this case for reasons found in the history of the argument.
- What I do remember about Eddie Rademeyer is a particular locution he favoured when a question of his was met with a blank stare by some poor uncomprehending pupil.
- This depends on the interpreter's culturally specific understanding of the social significance of the locution.
Synonyms
wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, style, vocabulary, terminology, expressions, turns of phrase, parlance, manner of speaking, manner of writing, way of talking, form of expression, mode of expression, usages, locutions, idiolect, choice of words, rhetoric, oratory
1. 1.1 A person's style of speech.
  个人言语风格
  his impeccable locution
  他说话滴水不漏。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Like the protagonists in the classic Hollywood films of Anthony Mann, Hawks or Ford, the leads of Collateral express themselves through their action as much as their locution.
  Synonyms
  oratory, rhetoric, grandiloquence, magniloquence
2An utterance regarded in terms of its intrinsic meaning or reference, as distinct from its function or purpose in context.
内在涵义话语（指从其内在意义的角度考虑的话语，有别于话语的功能和目的）。比较ILLOCUTION，PERLOCUTION
Compare with illocution, perlocution
Example sentencesExamples
- For our paraphrastic procedure to be comprehensive, it must work with contexts containing explicitly comparative locutions.
- The central claim of the prosentential theory is that ‘x is true’ functions as a prosentence-forming operator rather than a property-ascribing locution.
- The surface grammar of power locutions can be misleading in numerous ways.
1. 2.1 Language regarded in terms of locutionary rather than illocutionary or perlocutionary acts.
  表述性语言（指非施为性或成事性的语言）
  Example sentencesExamples
  A key insight of this volume is Vanhoozer's correlation of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with locution, illocution, and perlocution, respectively.
  In particular, speech act theory is built on his discussion of locution, illocution, and perlocution.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin locutio(n-), from loqui ‘speak’.

词汇	locution
释义	Definition of locution in English: locution noun ləˈkjuːʃ(ə)nləˈkjuʃ(ə)n 1A word or phrase, especially with regard to style or idiom. 措辞；惯用语 Example sentencesExamples What is chilling is that Mullen's masterfully deformed locutions sound more like clarifying paraphrases than like parodies. That locution is uttered as if it is some fatal sequence of human conduct. This depends on the interpreter's culturally specific understanding of the social significance of the locution. Perhaps ‘unavoidable circumstances’ would be a better locution? It is easy to paraphrase another author's ideas or incorporate his or her locutions without crediting the source. Even the most resistive of these locutions, however, do not explicitly embrace feminism or seek any larger political context. One of my least favorite locutions in politics is the statement by an official or politician that someone's criticism of government policy is ‘unhelpful.’ We are not using locutions of that kind in this case for reasons found in the history of the argument. Her locutions seem to have neither introductions nor conclusions but begin from a place of inquiry and intimacy. For these reasons, we try to help our students understand the pejorative implications of such stereotypical locutions and believe that what they say matters. Occasionally, we shall employ the locution, ‘land rent,’ which is technically redundant; we do so merely to provide recurring emphasis as a reminder of what is meant. These locutions are determinedly descriptive. This locution is recurrent in the accumulating commentary on Desiderio's paintings. At any rate, my defense of Barber's diction, if it needs one, is that not being graced or burdened with the role of authorized biographer, he may have felt authorized to employ unofficial, slangy locutions. The downside of using both locutions is redundancy; the upside is precision and clarity, though I realize that the trade-off here is controversial. His earliest plays were political, ridiculing the wooden locutions of communist rhetoric. What I do remember about Eddie Rademeyer is a particular locution he favoured when a question of his was met with a blank stare by some poor uncomprehending pupil. Today, any state-sponsored eugenic ideology would surely face considerable opposition, but instead we have (to use the barbarous locution now common) ‘privatized’ eugenic decisions. This reduces ‘constitutional right’ to a fancy locution for ‘rights I think are important’. In one of the courtrooms here, the air is thick with quaint-sounding British courtroom locutions. Synonyms wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, style, vocabulary, terminology, expressions, turns of phrase, parlance, manner of speaking, manner of writing, way of talking, form of expression, mode of expression, usages, locutions, idiolect, choice of words, rhetoric, oratory 1.1mass noun A person's style of speech. 个人言语风格 his impeccable locution 他说话滴水不漏。 Example sentencesExamples Like the protagonists in the classic Hollywood films of Anthony Mann, Hawks or Ford, the leads of Collateral express themselves through their action as much as their locution. Synonyms oratory, rhetoric, grandiloquence, magniloquence 2An utterance regarded in terms of its intrinsic meaning or reference, as distinct from its function or purpose in context. 内在涵义话语（指从其内在意义的角度考虑的话语，有别于话语的功能和目的）。比较ILLOCUTION，PERLOCUTION Compare with illocution, perlocution Example sentencesExamples The surface grammar of power locutions can be misleading in numerous ways. For our paraphrastic procedure to be comprehensive, it must work with contexts containing explicitly comparative locutions. The central claim of the prosentential theory is that ‘x is true’ functions as a prosentence-forming operator rather than a property-ascribing locution. Derivatives locutionary adjective Thus the same locutionary action is interpreted as two quite different illocutionary actions. Example sentencesExamples The paternalistic tradition thus constructs a simulacrum of male discursive empowerment which multiplies locutionary authority while eradicating perlocutionary agency. Austin distinguishes among three components in a total speech act: the locutionary act, the illocutionary act, and the perlocutionary act. The boy's self-realization focused on the locutionary and literary power of the word. In this article we analyze the grammar of codes of ethics as a written locutionary act, and attempt to determine their implicit illocutionary and perlocutionary values. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin locutio(n-), from loqui 'speak'. Rhymes ablution, absolution, allocution, attribution, circumlocution, circumvolution, Confucian, constitution, contribution, convolution, counter-revolution, destitution, dilution, diminution, distribution, electrocution, elocution, evolution, execution, institution, interlocution, irresolution, Lilliputian, perlocution, persecution, pollution, prosecution, prostitution, restitution, retribution, Rosicrucian, solution, substitution, volution Definition of locution in US English: locution nounləˈkjuʃ(ə)nləˈkyo͞oSH(ə)n 1A word or phrase, especially with regard to style or idiom. 措辞；惯用语 Example sentencesExamples In one of the courtrooms here, the air is thick with quaint-sounding British courtroom locutions. The downside of using both locutions is redundancy; the upside is precision and clarity, though I realize that the trade-off here is controversial. That locution is uttered as if it is some fatal sequence of human conduct. It is easy to paraphrase another author's ideas or incorporate his or her locutions without crediting the source. This reduces ‘constitutional right’ to a fancy locution for ‘rights I think are important’. What is chilling is that Mullen's masterfully deformed locutions sound more like clarifying paraphrases than like parodies. Even the most resistive of these locutions, however, do not explicitly embrace feminism or seek any larger political context. Her locutions seem to have neither introductions nor conclusions but begin from a place of inquiry and intimacy. Occasionally, we shall employ the locution, ‘land rent,’ which is technically redundant; we do so merely to provide recurring emphasis as a reminder of what is meant. Today, any state-sponsored eugenic ideology would surely face considerable opposition, but instead we have (to use the barbarous locution now common) ‘privatized’ eugenic decisions. At any rate, my defense of Barber's diction, if it needs one, is that not being graced or burdened with the role of authorized biographer, he may have felt authorized to employ unofficial, slangy locutions. For these reasons, we try to help our students understand the pejorative implications of such stereotypical locutions and believe that what they say matters. These locutions are determinedly descriptive. Perhaps ‘unavoidable circumstances’ would be a better locution? This locution is recurrent in the accumulating commentary on Desiderio's paintings. One of my least favorite locutions in politics is the statement by an official or politician that someone's criticism of government policy is ‘unhelpful.’ His earliest plays were political, ridiculing the wooden locutions of communist rhetoric. We are not using locutions of that kind in this case for reasons found in the history of the argument. What I do remember about Eddie Rademeyer is a particular locution he favoured when a question of his was met with a blank stare by some poor uncomprehending pupil. This depends on the interpreter's culturally specific understanding of the social significance of the locution. Synonyms wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, style, vocabulary, terminology, expressions, turns of phrase, parlance, manner of speaking, manner of writing, way of talking, form of expression, mode of expression, usages, locutions, idiolect, choice of words, rhetoric, oratory 1.1 A person's style of speech. 个人言语风格 his impeccable locution 他说话滴水不漏。 Example sentencesExamples Like the protagonists in the classic Hollywood films of Anthony Mann, Hawks or Ford, the leads of Collateral express themselves through their action as much as their locution. Synonyms oratory, rhetoric, grandiloquence, magniloquence 2An utterance regarded in terms of its intrinsic meaning or reference, as distinct from its function or purpose in context. 内在涵义话语（指从其内在意义的角度考虑的话语，有别于话语的功能和目的）。比较ILLOCUTION，PERLOCUTION Compare with illocution, perlocution Example sentencesExamples For our paraphrastic procedure to be comprehensive, it must work with contexts containing explicitly comparative locutions. The central claim of the prosentential theory is that ‘x is true’ functions as a prosentence-forming operator rather than a property-ascribing locution. The surface grammar of power locutions can be misleading in numerous ways. 2.1 Language regarded in terms of locutionary rather than illocutionary or perlocutionary acts. 表述性语言（指非施为性或成事性的语言） Example sentencesExamples A key insight of this volume is Vanhoozer's correlation of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with locution, illocution, and perlocution, respectively. In particular, speech act theory is built on his discussion of locution, illocution, and perlocution. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin locutio(n-), from loqui ‘speak’.
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