LInguists and linguisticians
am 30.10.2007 von http://transblawg.eu
Reviewers letter to TLS, September 14, 2007:
Sir, - In my review of David Crystals How Language Works (July 20), the word linguist was replaced by linguistician throughout, without my permission. Linguistician is a term which I would never use myself. People who do linguistics are known as linguists. In the review I used the phrase linguistic researchers in the first sentence to make clear what sort of …
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