locutionary, a. Philos.
(ləʊˈkjuːʃənərɪ)
[f. locution + -ary1.]
Of or pertaining to an utterance by a speaker. Cf. illocutionary a.
| 1955 J. L. Austin How to do Things with Words (1962) viii. 94 The act of ‘saying something’..I call, i.e. dub, the performance of a locutionary act. 1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Sept. 743/2 A locutionary act is the speaker's act of saying whatever it is he says. 1973 Ibid. 5 Oct. 1161/5 The locutionary act was the act of saying something—i e, the act of uttering sounds as constituting a sentence. |