linguicist

linguicist

English

Adjective

linguicist (comparative more linguicist, superlative most linguicist)

1. Characteristic of or pertaining to linguicism.
   • 1992, Robert Phillipson, Linguistic Imperialism, →ISBN, page 133:

     Alternatively there may have been a lack of political will to achieve more equitable and less linguicist goals.

   • 1995, Ofelia García & ‎Colin Baker, Policy and Practice in Bilingual Education, →ISBN:

     Not to live up to these demands for minority children is linguicist.

   • 2013, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Linguistic Genocide in Education--or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights?, →ISBN:

     The remaining ones have, through linguicist processes, been hierarchized so that speakers of some languages and varieties have more power and material resources than their numbers would justify, simply because of being speakers of those languages and varieties.

Noun

linguicist (plural linguicists)

1. One who discriminates on the basis of language.
   • 1989, Noel Broadbent, Nordic Perspectives on Arctic Cultural and Political Ecology, page 95:

     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, Eduardo Hernández Chávez, “The role of suppressive language policies in language shift and language loss”, in Estudios Fronterizos:

     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.

   • 1998, Brick - Issues 58-63, page 43:

     Was he a racist? Not exactly. But he was a "linguicist" — to use a disparaging word deployed by the Language Rights Movement (a group founded at Roskilde University in Denmark, which campaigns for a universal declaration of linguistic human rights).

2. (dated) One who studies language; a linguist.
   • 128, Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics - Issue 8, page 1955:

     Let us pass now from a consideration of lexicon to that of morpheme analysis, as practised by linguicists.

   • 1957, John B. Newman, “The area of semantics”, in Quarterly Journal of Speech, volume 43, number 2:

     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";

Anagrams

• linguistic