folk linguistics

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folk linguistics (uncountable)

  1. Beliefs held by speakers about their language or language more generally; the study of these beliefs.
    • 2014, Susan Tamasi, Lamont Antieau, Language and Linguistic Diversity in the US, Routledge, →ISBN, page 56:
      In light of the findings from early research in social psychology, research in folk linguistics has also examined the social characteristics that non-experts associate with regional linguistic variation.

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