segregationalist

English

Etymology

segregational +‎ -ist

Noun

segregationalist (plural segregationalists)

1. (rare) A segregationist; a supporter of racial, ethnic, or religious segregation.
2. (linguistics) One who believes that linguistic signs have meaning independent of the context of their use in communication.

Adjective

segregationalist

1. (rare) Segregationist; supportive of or leading to racial, ethnic, or religious segregation.
2. (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 […]