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linguicist

linguicist adjective: characteristic of or pertaining to linguicism.

Adjective

linguicist (comparative more linguicist, superlative most linguicist)

  1. Characteristic of or pertaining to linguicism.
    • Alternatively there may have been a lack of political will to achieve more equitable and less linguicist goals.1992, Robert Phillipson, Linguistic Imperialism, →ISBN, page 133
    • Not to live up to these demands for minority children is linguicist.1995, Ofelia García, Colin Baker, Policy and Practice in Bilingual Education, →ISBN

Noun

linguicist (plural linguicists)

  1. One who discriminates on the basis of language.
    • Many Western linguicists may never have experienced cross-linguistic interactional reciprocity. Not experiencing situations with equal relations between languages, and always being linguistically unthreatened my dull sensitivity to language issues.1989, Noel Broadbent, Nordic Perspectives on Arctic Cultural and Political Ecology, page 95
    • In this context, it seems to have been a major strategic mistake on the part of militant linguicists to have mounted the Official English movement, despite their rather dramatic gains to date.1989, Eduardo Hernández Chávez, “The role of suppressive language policies in language shift and language loss”, in Estudios Fronterizos
  2. (dated) One who studies language; a linguist.
    • Let us pass now from a consideration of lexicon to that of morpheme analysis, as practised by linguicists.128, Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics - Issue 8, page 1955
    • Some linguicists (see footnote 13 below) avoid all semantic and psychological criteria in their analyses and believe "that such criteria play no part, or at least need not play one, in the theoretical foundation of phonemics";1957, John B. Newman, “The area of semantics”, in Quarterly Journal of Speech, volume 43, number 2

Forms of linguicist

Adjective
comparativemore linguicist
superlativemost linguicist
Noun
plurallinguicists

Questions about linguicist

What does linguicist mean?
Linguicist means characteristic of or pertaining to linguicism.
What part of speech is linguicist?
Linguicist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near linguicist in the dictionary

  1. linguicas
  2. linguicidal
  3. linguicide
  4. linguicism
  5. linguicisms
  6. linguicist
  7. linguicists
  8. linguidental
  9. linguidentals
  10. linguiform
  11. linguine

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