Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The aim of a speaker in making an utterance as opposed to the meaning of the terms used.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
A type of speech act being made by a speaker, i.e., the purpose of the statement in terms of how the addressee is to interpret either its truth-value, or its requirements and demands upon the speaker in terms of a physical or psychological response.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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History
From il- (“in”) (an assimilated version of in-) + locution (“speech”), from Latin loquor.
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
