Locute

Quick meaning: Locute is a verb meaning (intransitive or transitive, rare) To speak; to say; to utter.

Meaning

(intransitive or transitive, rare) To speak; to say; to utter.

More Meanings

1. (philosophy, pragmatics, intransitive or transitive with the utterance as object) To utter a meaningful sentence; to perform a locutionary act.

Example Sentences

The translator locutes propositions, but illocutes nothing at all.

"God's a pervert[…]" He locutes with double rows of gold teeth, in the bland guise of an argument.

By contrast, for Grice, one who for instance speaks ironically makes as if to illocute, rather than making as if to locute.

And 'tis strange that Reverend Body shou'd not find out in several Years, that he who cannot Locute will never Prolocute well.

Word Forms

• locutes
• locuting
• locuted

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