a word or phrase, especially with regard to style or idiom 语言风格 ■[mass noun]a person's style of speech 个人语言风格 his impeccable locution. 他说话滴水不漏。
an utterance regarded in terms of its intrinsic meaning or reference, as distinct from its function or purpose in context 语内涵义。 比较 illocution, perlocution ■[mass noun]language regarded in terms of locutionary rather than illocutionary or perlocutionary acts 非语内表现语言
派生 locutionary adjective 语源
late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin locutio(n-), from loqui 'speak'