segregationalism

Noun

segregationalism (uncountable)

1. (rare) Segregationism; the support or practice of segregating racial, ethnic, or religious groups.
   • Disharmony, disunity and segregationalism reign supreme in the society of the "Brahmanic" Hindus at the expense of unity, integration and harmony.1944, Ishwara Topa, Facts about India, page 128
   • As opposed to settler segregationalism they manifested an 'assimilationist' attitude, although of a paternalist kind, based on the idea of universal rights.1986, Jarle Simensen, Finn Fuglestad, Norwegian Missions in African History
2. (broadly) The isolation of a person or group of people to achieve a specific end.
   • Segregationalism is being much carried out. Patient having passed through pneumonic deliriums, is now comatic and in articulo mortis.1911, The Windsor Magazine - Volume 34, page 70
   • Instinct in capitalist individualism are the notions of economic segregationalism and consequent psychological emphasis upon the right to privacy.1940, Ludwig Teller, The law governing labor disputes and collective bargaining
3. The stance that linguistic signs act (or approach acting) as fixed codes with invariant pairings of form and meaning.
   • The point of criticism under scrutiny squares with a possible reading of Roy Harris (e.g. 1996); every attempt to posit an abstract language amounts to 'segregationalism', isolating verbal language from other phenomena with which it may turn out to have essential links.2004, Per Linell, The Written Language Bias in Linguistics, →ISBN
   • Segregationalism, as opposed to an integrationist view of communication and the linguistic sign, separates or hypostasizes as a separable entity a linguistic sign, which leads an independent existence, has an ontic place independent of the actual and contextual circumstances of the particular act...2005, Nils Langer, Winifred Davies, Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages, →ISBN, page 191
4. (broadly) The conflation of sign and meaning.
   • Sam's error is to conflate appearance and identity, to presume that a silver coat, black stilettos and red hair signify the person (Allie) he recognises from that collection of signs. Whilst discussing the tacit segregationalism of Allie, a single white female, placing an advertisement specifying...2012, Stella Bruzzi, Undressing Cinema: Clothing and identity in the movies, →ISBN, page 143