In colloquial use, an interlocutor (IPA: /ɪntɚlɑkjutɚ/) is simply someone taking part in a conversation.
The term also has several other specialized uses:
- In politics, it describes someone who informally explains the views of a government and also can relay messages back to a government. Politics Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions For the government of parliamentary systems see Executive (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 he does, everything an interlocutor says is his own personal opinion and not the official view of anyone. A spokesman ( spokeswoman or spokesperson) is someone engaged to speak on behalf of others Because an interlocutor does not express an official view, 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 music, it was the term for the master of ceremonies in a minstrel show. Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits variety acts dancing, and Music, A blackface character, like the other performers, the interlocutor nonetheless had a somewhat aristocratic demeanor, a "codfish aristocrat". Blackface in the narrow sense is a style of theatrical Makeup that originated in the United [1]
- It is also the name given in Scots law to the formal order of the court. Scots law is a unique legal system with an ancient basis in Roman law.
References
- ^ Lott, Eric. Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class, Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-19-509641-X. p. 153
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