Interlocutor (linguistics)

Short description: Person involved in a conversation or dialogue

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.[1][2] The terms conversation partner,[3] hearer,[4] or addressee[5] are often used interchangeably with interlocutor.

According to Paul Grice, the behavior of interlocutors in ordinary conversation is governed by the cooperative principle.[6]

## See also

* Addressee honorific
* Clusivity
* Common ground (linguistics)
* Conversation analysis
* Discourse

## References

1. ↑ "interlocutor noun". Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. Merriam Webster. 2003. ISBN 0877798095. https://archive.org/details/merriamwebstersc00merr_6.
2. ↑ Meyerhoff, Miriam (2013). "Routledge Sociolinguistics Glossary". Introducing Sociolinguistics, 2nd edition. Taylor and Francis. http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/meyerhoff/glossary.asp.
3. ↑ Thomas, Margaret (2011). Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics. Routledge. p. 280. ISBN 978-0-415-37302-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=nw_OjgTSCkkC&pg=PA280. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
4. ↑ Buchstaller, Isabelle and Ingrid Van Alphen, ed (2012). "Appendix: Glossary of specialist terms for research in quotation". Quotatives: Cross-linguistic and Cross-disciplinary Perspectives. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 285. ISBN 978-90-272-3905-1. https://books.google.com/books?id=hi-0qRYc4BgC&pg=PT315. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
5. ↑ Whitley, M. Stanley (2002). Spanish-English Contrasts: A Course in Spanish Linguistics. Georgetown University Press. p. 358. ISBN 978-0-87840-381-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=yyqU_tXek1EC&pg=PA358. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
6. ↑ Grice, Herbert Paul (1975). "Logic and conversation". in Cole, P.; Morgan, J. L.. Syntax and semantics. 3: Speech acts. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. pp. 41–58.

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