locutionary

locutionary
/loh kyooh"sheuh ner'ee/, adj. Philos., Ling.
pertaining to the act of conveying semantic content in an utterance, considered as independent of the interaction between the speaker and the listener. Cf. illocutionary, perlocutionary.
[1950-55; LOCUTION + -ARY]

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