linguisticize

present singular third person linguisticizes · participle present linguisticizing · participle past linguisticized · past linguisticized

1. transitiveTo make linguistic; to reduce to a question of linguistics.

   To Gotz, however, such a development is abhorrent; for his purposes the best application of language is obviously the one that "linguisticizes" least.

   1986, Bruce Kieffer, The Storm and Stress of Language: Linguistic Catastrophe in the Early Works of Goethe, Lenz, Klinger, and Schiller

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   The complexity of the romantic "philological" transformation of Kantian Copernicanism is clearly manifest in the attempts to "linguisticize" the structure of subjectivity, which followed hard upon the heels of Kant's critical philosophy.

   1996, Paul Redding, Hegel's Hermeneutics, page 39