Meaning of locutor | Babel Free

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A speaker (one who talks).

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“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.”

“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.”

“We think⟳ of locutors' interactions as exchanges of conversational objects (COs). A conversational object is a mental attitude (belief, goal, wish⟳, etc.) along with a positioning which a narrator transfers to another locutor during a conversation [13]. The locutor positions herself relative to a mental attitude by performing actions like⟳ "proposing", "accepting", "rejecting"; this is called the locutor's positioning relative to that mental attitude.”

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