locution

noun

• 1a word or phrase, especially with regard to style or idiom.
• a person’s style of speech:his impeccable locution

• 2an utterance regarded in terms of its intrinsic meaning or reference, as distinct from its function or purpose in context. Compare with illocution, perlocution.
• language regarded in terms of locutionary rather than illocutionary or perlocutionary acts.