Beliefs held by speakers about their language or language more generally; the study of these beliefs.

Alternative form of crosslinguistic

(psychology) A field of study that attempts to build a set of transferable skills by programming the unconscious mind.

A missionary who seeks to study a people's language in order to facilitate religious conversion.

plural of missionary-linguist

linguist whose field is comparative linguistics.

plural of cunning linguist

(vulgar, colloquial, humorous, euphemistic) One who performs cunnilingus. / (literally, rare) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cunning, linguist.

plural of comparative linguist

One who shares a language with someone.