All 5 Uses
linguist
in
Outliers
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- He had just been reading the work of the linguist Noam Chomsky.†
Chpt 4 *linguist = a language specialist; or someone skilled in multiple languages
- The term used by linguists to describe what Klotz was engaging in in that moment is "mitigated speech," which refers to any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said.†
Chpt 7linguists = language specialists
- The linguists Ute Fischer and Judith Orasanu once gave the following hypothetical scenario to a group of captains and first officers and asked them how they would respond: You notice on the weather radar an area of heavy precipitation 25 miles ahead.†
Chpt 7
- The Korean linguist Ho-min Sohn writes: At a dinner table, a lower-ranking person must wait until a higher-ranking person sits down and starts eating, while the reverse does not hold true; one does not smoke in the presence of a social superior; when drinking with a social superior, the subordinate hides his glass and turns away from the superior;...in greeting a social superior (though not an inferior) a Korean must bow; a Korean must rise when an obvious social superior appears on the scene, and he cannot pass in front of an obvious social superior.†
Chpt 7linguist = a language specialist; or someone skilled in multiple languages
- Western communication has what linguists call a "transmitter orientation", that is, it is considered the responsibility of the speaker to communicate ideas clearly and unambiguously.†
Chpt 7linguists = language specialists
Definitions:
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(1)
(linguist) a specialist in the study of language
or:
a person who is skilled in multiple languages - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)