Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet LOCUTION

Definition av LOCUTION

1. idiomatiskt uttryck

Exempel på hur man kan använda LOCUTION i en mening

• If the person claims to hear Mary but not see her, this is known as an interior locution, not an apparition.
• In his framework, locution is what was said and meant, illocution is what was done, and perlocution is what happened as a result.
• He possesses all those gifts a satiric writer might want: an eye for the telling detail, an ear for the pretensions of contemporary locution, an ability to write idiosyncratic prose that twinkles with cleverness and wit.
• The term metalocutionary act originated as metalocution (Gibbon 1976, 1983) in functional descriptions of intonation in English and German, by analogy with locution (locutionary act), illocution (illocutionary act) and perlocution (perlocutionary act) in speech act theory.
• The locution "Chuhra-Chamar" is used derisively by jatt caste to refer to both Dalit castes, the Chuhra and Chamar.
• Chinese has five words translatable as "idiom": chengyu (/ "set phrase; idiom"), yanyu (/; "proverb; popular saying, maxim; idiom"), xiehouyu (/; "truncated witticism, aposiopesis; enigmatic folk simile"), xiyu (/; "idiom"), and guanyongyu (/; "fixed expression; idiom; locution").
• "Going to hell in a handbasket", "going to hell in a handcart", "going to hell in a handbag", "go to hell in a bucket", "sending something to hell in a handbasket" and "something being like hell in a handbasket" are variations on an allegorical locution of unclear origin, which describes a situation headed for disaster inescapably or precipitately.
• Instructive rules constitute reality: if one person utters the locution 'country X has moral superiority in world affairs', another person accepts it (illocution), and many other people act accordingly (perlocution), reality will have been constituted by this speech act.

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