| This depends on the interpreter's culturally specific understanding of the social significance of the locution. |
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| We typically identify powers with a certain standard locution, employing the infinitives of verbs along with verb phrases. |
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| Most languages have some self-critical locution, usually a wordplay or neologism, to indicate typical national defects. |
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| God that he is, Jupiter has the locution that climaxes the wit pervading the play. |
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| But he moves beyond Austin and Searle's tripartite distinction between locution, illocution, and perlocution. |
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| In particular, speech act theory is built on his discussion of locution, illocution, and perlocution. |
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| This locution is recurrent in the accumulating commentary on Desiderio's paintings. |
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| These words revived her moribund career, underscoring the truth that politics is mostly about locution, locution, locution. |
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| 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. |
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| That locution is uttered as if it is some fatal sequence of human conduct. |
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| 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. |
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| He is hardly alone in using a locution that should nevertheless be retired, a charitable critic might have explained. |
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| Of the numerous striking things about the critic, Brian Sewell, who has died of cancer at the age of 84, the most immediate was his locution. |
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| His Words reached my consciousness through a quite human locution. |
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| Also, letters don't always get to the right locution, so double check to see if you have the right address. |
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| It is clear that this locution serves to absolve the culprit, at least in his own mind, from responsibility for the act. |
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| Perhaps our homilists should spend more time developing their myth-making than their locution. |
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| To solve this problem, I propose the locution 'quaint, which is short for acquaintance. |
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| Secretary of State John Kerry adopted that locution in his latest peace process framework. |
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