segregationalist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From segregational + -ist.
Noun
[edit]segregationalist (plural segregationalists)
- (rare) A segregationist; a supporter of racial, ethnic, or religious segregation.
- (linguistics) One who believes that linguistic signs have meaning independent of the context of their use in communication.
Adjective
[edit]segregationalist
- (rare) Segregationist; supportive of or leading to racial, ethnic, or religious segregation.
- (linguistics) Characteristic of segregationalism.
- 1997, George Wolf, Nigel Love, Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and his critics, →ISBN, page 40:
- 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.
- 2014, Redefining Linguistics, →ISBN, page 41:
- 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 […]