linguicist

adj

1. Characteristic of or pertaining to linguicism.

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

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

   “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

1. One who discriminates on the basis of language.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.

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

   “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";”