locutionaryadj.
/lə(ʊ)ˈkjuːʃn̩(ə)ri/, U.S. /loʊˈkjuʃəˌnɛri/ 1. Of or relating to speech or conversation. Now rare.
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the mind > language > speech > [adjective]
locutory1735
locutionary1880
illocutionary1955
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [adjective] > of or relating to discussion
interlocutory1597
discussive1644
discussional1818
locutionary1880
1880 Time Mar. 699 With no locutionary duties of a dramatic sort are they intrusted: efforts of declamation or recitation are not for them.
1881 St. Andrew's Mag. Aug. 163 His locutionary wheels well lubricated.
1920 W. B. Hale Story of Style 123 There are grammarians who assert that if a glass is full, it is a locutionary crime..to describe it as ‘very full’.
2. Philosophy and Linguistics. In speech-act theory: of or relating to a locution (locution n. 5).
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1955 J. L. Austin MS Lect. Notes: How to do Things with Words (Bodl. Eng. Misc. c. 395) f. 13 The act of ‘saying s[ome]th[in]g’..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.
1984 K. Elam Shakespeare's Universe of Disc. 40 The uncertainty of the locutionary terrain here is particularly marked in the pronominal (I—you) relationship.
2003 D. J. Lose Confessing Jesus Christ 104 The locutionary element involves the descriptive content of the words and sounds of speech.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1880