glossophile
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]glossophile (plural glossophiles)
- Synonym of linguaphile.
- 1990, Claude Hagège, translated by Sharon L. Shelly, “Languages as Love Objects”, in The Dialogic Species: A Linguistic Contribution to the Social Sciences (European Perspectives), New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, part 3 (Theoretical Goals or Our Dialogical Nature), chapter 12 (Love of Language), page 236:
- “Glossophiles” are in no way troubled by the reproduction ad infinitum of the same content, which others may find absurd. For such devotees, languages are love objects. They enjoy the associations between certain sounds and certain meanings; they appreciate diverse types of sentence structure; they love comparing words against subtle and varying semantic grids.
- 2003, Shuhei Hosokawa, “Speaking in the Tongue of the Antipode: Japanese Brazilian Fantasy on the Origin of Language”, in Jeffrey Lesser, editor, Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 39:
- The task of fantastic linguistics is to locate the glossophiles in the wider context of knowledge by questioning why and how they failed to construct the authentic objects of the modern linguistics. By virtue of their out-of-placeness they illuminate the limits of scientific discourse by blurring and bypassing the boundary between science and fantasy.
- 2008, Melissa Schweiger, “Try … Red Lips”, in Sephora, the Beauty Authority: The Ultimate Guide to Makeup, Skin, and Hair from the Beauty Authority, New York, N.Y.: Collins, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Try This at Home), page 45:
- “Red lips say something very positive about how you feel about yourself,” says makeup artist Sue Devitt. Indeed, it takes a bold, confident woman to step out in red lips. Unlike the clear glossophiles, the red-lipsticked among us will get noticed.