"He was not brought in to be a major international interlocutor," said Mr. Pifer, now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a research and policy center here.
Dobrynin depicted Reagan as a serious if determined interlocutor, engaged on major issues — without benefit of index cards.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as he sought to turn Mercosur (the Southern Cone Common Market, consisting of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay) into the major voice for Latin American economic integration and the chief interlocutor with both the European Union and the United States in trade negotiations.
But he also indicated that he could take a more hard-line stance than Mr. Tadic on major issues like Europe and Kosovo, making him potentially an intransigent interlocutor for Brussels and Washington if he becomes prime minister.
Rather than trying to figure out David Duchovny's negligible movie roles until now ["David Duchovny, With Facial Expressions," April 9], Anita Gates should have pointed out that Mr. Duchovny's major claim to fame before "The X-Files" was his role of interlocutor on Zalman King's soft-porn series "The Red Shoe Diaries," still in endless reruns on the cable network Showtime.
For a long time, the major powers had hoped that imposing strenuous sanctions on Iran could produce an interlocutor willing to negotiate honestly and to adhere to an exacting arms control agreement.
For more than a decade, the other major Indian business group, C.I.I., has operated as one of the most influential interlocutors of Indian foreign policy, helping to facilitate closer Indian ties with Japan, Singapore and, most important, the United States.
Major emphasis was placed on distinguishing between "argumentation" (where the speaker has the intention to convince the interlocutor of the acceptability of a standpoint) and "explanation" (where the speaker aims to describe the features of a phenomenon to make sense of it) on the basis of the conceptualization given by Snoeck Henkemans [ 39].
"Oh," said my interlocutor.
His interlocutor laughed nervously.
