locutor

English

Etymology

Latin locūtor (“speaker, talker”).

Noun

locutor (plural locutors)

  1. A speaker (one who talks).
    • 1984, Urban Pidgins and Creoles: Papers from the York Creole Conference:
      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.
    • 2006, Alan J. E. Wolf, Subjectivity in a Second Language: Conveying the Expression of Self (ISBN 9783039105182), page 186:
      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.
    • 2007, William M. Tepfenhart, Walling Cyre, Conceptual Structures: Standards and Practices: 7th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS'99, Blacksburg, VA, USA, July 12-15, 1999, Proceedings, Springer (ISBN 9783540486596), page 151:
      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.

Usage notes

  • This term was very rare until the mid-1900s, and is still over a thousand times less common than speaker.[1]

References

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin locūtor.

Noun

locutor m (plural locutors)

  1. speaker
  2. presenter; host (on TV, radio)

Latin

Etymology

From loquor (“speak, talk”) +‎ -tor.

Noun

locūtor m (genitive locūtoris); third declension

  1. speaker, talker

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative locūtor locūtōrēs
genitive locūtōris locūtōrum
dative locūtōrī locūtōribus
accusative locūtōrem locūtōrēs
ablative locūtōre locūtōribus
vocative locūtor locūtōrēs

Descendants

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin locūtor.

Noun

locutor m (plural locutores, feminine locutora, feminine plural locutoras)

  1. announcer; commentator (one who makes announcements or comments on radio or TV)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin locūtōrem, singular accusative of locūtor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lokuˈtoɾ/, [lokuˈt̪oɾ]

Noun

locutor m (plural locutores)

  1. (media) announcer, newscaster, newsreader, commentator

Synonyms

See also

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