Definitions
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- noun publications purporting to fall under the scholarly field of
linguistics but falling short of its standards. Linguisticpseudo-scholarship .
Etymologies
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pseudo- + linguistics. First attested 1962 (OED). Modelled on the earlier adjective pseudolinguistic (as in "pseudolinguistic science", attested 1915).
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Examples
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I love it when people dress up racism in pseudo-linguistics.
What an unnatural stress pattern you have, Ms. Sotomayor! « Motivated Grammar 2009
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This strikes me as pseudo-linguistics, done by computer and particularly unreliable when a transcriber is making decisions about where to end and begin sentences and paragraphs, but I'm noting it because it's reported at CNN and getting some discussion in the blogosphere.
And then there's the way Sarah Palin keeps saying "also," also. Ann Althouse 2008
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