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What is a locution?

What is a locution? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A phrase or expression connected to an individual or a group of individuals through repeated usage.
  2. The use of a word or phrase in an unusual or specialized way.
  3. (religion) A supernatural revelation where a religious figure, statue or icon speaks, usually to a saint.
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But he moves beyond Austin and Searle's tripartite distinction between locution, illocution, and perlocution.
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.
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.
This depends on the interpreter's culturally specific understanding of the social significance of the locution.
That locution is uttered as if it is some fatal sequence of human conduct.
We typically identify powers with a certain standard locution, employing the infinitives of verbs along with verb phrases.

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