He analysed the structure of utterances into three distinct parts&colon; locutions, illocutions and perlocutions. She purportedly experienced interior locutions with Jesus. Another way to describe locutions is as corporeal, imaginary, or spiritual or intellectual. The latter two more properly fall under interior locutions. Clarke stated she received these messages in prayer (as interior locutions). English speakers do not generally find such locutions necessary, however. Unlike the sketches and the television movie, Mama had several locutions in the sitcom.