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semanticist

[ UK /səmˈæntɪsˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a specialist in the study of meaning

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  • Because we, what with our anal-retentive, horn-rimmed parsing of phrases and slicing of sentences, are really semanticists when it boils down to it.
  • For example, I recall once rambling on for a bit about semanticians, until a friend gently inquired whether I might be talking about semanticists.
  • He was not just a great linguist - phonologist, grammarian, semanticist, and polyglot - but a musician, musicologist, Orientalist, and gourmet (he wrote a book called The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters); and a wonderful humorist.
  • If some of this subcultural desituationism seems self referential and perhaps adorned with postmaterial semanticist theory then maybe the creation/destruction distinction is intrinsically fostering a prepatriarchialist sense of postmaterial discourse. Modernism Schmodernism « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
  • I hate to say this, as a part-time semanticist, but Harnad's criticisms of the above post are mostly semantics. Yes, HR 801 is about Open-Access Journals
  • Quoting the semanticist Alfred Korzbski, Verghese reminds us that the "map is not the territory". Archive 2008-12-01
  • Humpty Dumpty, the semanticist, tells Alice that "slithy," in Jabberwocky, is such a form, derived from "lithe" and "slimy. Robin Lakoff: Cutting to the Chase
  • However, Sontag uses the term ‘the semanticist paradigm of context’ to denote the common ground between society and class. "Although people in humanities have always lamented the state of the field..."
  • A few years ago, I asked Dave if he'd ever noticed that semanticists tend to wear leather - pants, vests and even hats as well as the more conventional coats and jackets.
  • Gwynplaine MacIntyre chosen by a plurality of entries was a sentence that thrilled every semanticist, grammarian and syntactician in the nation: “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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