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locutor

locutor noun: a speaker (one who talks).

Noun

locutor (plural locutors)

  1. A speaker (one who talks).
    • A position that solely insinuates a down-grading effect in the use of FT, engenders the impression of reducing the native locutor to a "sociolinguistic automaton" (Smith/Giles 1978: 10) that reflects a one-to-one relationship between ethnic bias and linguistic output.1984, Urban Pidgins and Creoles: Papers from the York Creole Conference
    • In conclusion, learners conveyed subjectivity by means of the diegetic present and the foregrounded imperfect but did so less frequently and in shorter stretches of text than native speakers in the expression of the native locutor's subjective involvement with his own discourse.2006, Alan J. E. Wolf, Subjectivity in a Second Language: Conveying the Expression of Self, →ISBN, page 186

Forms of locutor

plurallocutors

Origin of locutor

From Latin locūtor (“speaker, talker”).

Words formed from locutor

Questions about locutor

What does locutor mean?
Locutor means a speaker (one who talks).
What part of speech is locutor?
Locutor is a noun.
What is the plural of locutor?
The plural of locutor is locutors.

Words near locutor in the dictionary

  1. locution
  2. locutional
  3. locutionary
  4. locutions
  5. locutive
  6. locutor
  7. locutories
  8. locutors
  9. locutorship
  10. locutory
  11. lod

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