segregationalist

plural segregationalists

1. rareA segregationist; a supporter of racial, ethnic, or religious segregation.
2. human sciencesOne who believes that linguistic signs have meaning independent of the context of their use in communication.

1. rareSegregationist; supportive of or leading to racial, ethnic, or religious segregation.
2. human sciencesCharacteristic 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

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   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