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What (who) is locution - definition
locution
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Locution (disambiguation)
[l?'kju:?(?)n]
¦ noun
1. a word or phrase, especially with regard to style or idiom.
a person's style of speech.
2. an utterance regarded in terms of its intrinsic meaning or reference, as distinct from its function or purpose in context.
Derivatives
locutionary adjective
Origin
ME: from OFr., or from L. locutio(n-), from loqui 'speak'.
Locution
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Locution (disambiguation)
·noun Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.
locution
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Locution (disambiguation)
n.
Discourse, phrase, mode of speech.
Examples of use of locution
1. They are asking about the "right to choose" (a brilliant locution that expunges the ugly word abortion from all political debate about abortion) –– what Roberts in 1'81 correctly termed the "so–called ‘right to privacy,‘ " a skepticism he is now required to disavow.
2. Someone at the table said, "Which August?‘ " –– George Packer, "The Assassins‘ Gate: America in Iraq" Eccentric language often is symptomatic of peculiar thinking, and when the history of America‘s Iraq intervention is written, attention should be paid to the interveners‘ frequent use of the locution "to stand up." It carries the thought that things –– institutions such as armies and ministries, and even entire nations –– might be knocked over, as happens to lamps at rowdy parties, but then one simply stands them back up.