Crossword clues for interlocutor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interlocutor \In`ter*loc"u*tor\ (?; 277), n. [Cf. F. interlocuteur.]
One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner.
--Jer. Taylor.(Law) An interlocutory judgment or sentence.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A person who takes part in dialogue or conversation. 2 A man in the middle of the line in a minstrel show who questions the end men and acts as leader. 3 (context legal English) An interlocutory judgement or sentence. Etymology 2
n. (context Scotland legal English) A decree of a court.
WordNet
n. the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk [syn: middleman]
a person who takes part in a conversation [syn: conversational partner]
Wikipedia
Interlocutor may refer to:
- Interlocutor (music), the master of ceremonies of a minstrel show
- Interlocutor (politics), someone who informally explains the views of a government and also can relay messages back to a government
- Interlocutor (law), an order of any Scottish Court
- Interlocutor (linguistics), a participant in a discourse
An interlocutor is someone who informally explains the views of a government and also can relay messages back to a government. Unlike a spokesperson, an interlocutor often has no formal position within a government or any formal authority to speak on its behalf, and even when they do, everything an interlocutor says is his own personal opinion and not the official view of anyone. Communications between interlocutors are often useful at conveying information and ideas. Often interlocutors will talk with each other before formal negotiations. Interlocutors play an extremely important role in Sino-American relations.
In linguistics, discourse analysis, and related fields, an interlocutor is a person involved in a conversation or dialogue. Two or more people speaking to one another are each other's interlocutors. The terms conversation partner, hearer, or addressee are sometimes used interchangeably with interlocutor.
Usage examples of "interlocutor".
Indeed, Metternich himself in his own Memoirs often follows a good deal in the line of Bourrienne: among many formal attacks, every now and then he lapses into half involuntary and indirect praise of his great antagonist, especially where he compares the men he had to deal with in aftertimes with his former rapid and talented interlocutor.
Even the first mate, his present interlocutor, a grim man given to muttered abuse of his calling and a pious pessimism in respect to human nature, gradually thawed under the influence of so cheerful an acceptance of heavy weather and a clumsy deck cargo.
The young man has the same angular line of jaw, the same broad forehead and high cheekbones, the fine nose that is spared the Slavic curse of causing interlocutors to feel they are staring into the barrels of a shotgun.
But much more worrisome is that so many therapists accept these reports at face value, with inadequate attention given to the suggestibility of clients and to unconscious cuing by their interlocutors.
Filipino dislikes the unsuave, and is ever inclined, regardless of his personal knowledge or opinion, to say the thing he thinks his interlocutor desires to hear.
His ghostly interlocutor was becoming less imaginative—this message was Old English, of course, but it was hampered by the ghost’s (or Dale’s computer’s) apparent lack of diacritics and proper Old English letter forms.
He sat leaning forward, listening, or answering with a spate of the clear, expressive language that was his native tongue, sometimes gesturing with his free hand as if his interlocutor could see him, occasionally laughing.