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segregationalist

noun, adj — 4 senses

segregationalist

noun

Etymology From segregational + -ist.

1

Rare A segregationist; a supporter of racial, ethnic, or religious segregation.

2

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences One who believes that linguistic signs have meaning independent of the context of their use in communication.

segregationalist

adj

Etymology From segregational + -ist.

1

Rare Segregationist; supportive of or leading to racial, ethnic, or religious segregation.

2

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Characteristic of segregationalism.

  • In other words, the “'language myth' myth” produces a history of linguistics that is as segregationalist — if not more so — than the linguistics it is purporting to describe.1997, George Wolf, Nigel Love, Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and his critics, →ISBN, page 40:
  • According to the orthodox segregationalist view, the essential difference between reading the words 'Open the door' and hearing the words 'Open the door' is that the reader has learnt a set of audiographic correlations […]2014, Redefining Linguistics, →ISBN, page 41:

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