0 someone who studies foreign languages or can speak them very well, or someone who teaches or studies linguistics --
1 someone who studies the structure and development of language, or someone who knows several languages --
For such linguists, the current domain of inquiry is the patterns within and across languages.
As a result, linguists have been misunderstood in public debate, so that the level of public debate about language remains low.
While this is controversal, many linguists tend to use it informally, nonetheless, and then juxtapose their intuited results with dates derived from archaeology.
This requires a specially trained computational linguist in the loop for the maintenance and population of the lexicon.
Numerous sets of cases have been proposed and criticized by linguists and computational linguists.
In communities of practice, unlike speech communities, the boundaries are determined not externally by linguists, but internally through ethnographically specific social meanings of language use.
Nor do teachers think they're linguists who liberate their pupils with lessons on dialectology.
This curious contradiction or confusion is a fallacy to which most linguists seem prone.
