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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A specialist in semantics.
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- noun A person who studies
semantics .
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- noun a specialist in the study of meaning
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Examples
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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 2008
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I hate to say this, as a part-time semanticist, but Harnad's criticisms of the above post are mostly semantics.
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Humpty Dumpty, the semanticist, tells Alice that "slithy," in Jabberwocky, is such a form, derived from "lithe" and "slimy."
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I hate to say this, as a part-time semanticist, but Harnad's criticisms of the above post are mostly semantics.
Archive 2009-03-01 josh 2009
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It is blatantly unfair, and we should cease all the judicial semanticist contortions trying to make it appear lessso.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “What Really Happened” in Ricci: 2009
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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..." Ann Althouse 2009
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Quoting the semanticist Alfred Korzbski, Verghese reminds us that the "map is not the territory".
Archive 2008-12-01 james gaulte 2008
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Quoting the semanticist Alfred Korzbski, Verghese reminds us that the "map is not the territory".
The Medical Matrix,the iPatient and does anyone remember the physical exam? james gaulte 2008
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What a comical semanticist you are — a true, blue politician.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Rumsfeld Called Out On Lies About WMD 2006
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I attacked both the quality of prose and the tenuousness of some of the ideas, and my generalizations might have been a wee bit on the sweeping side, though the scalpel-wielding semanticist in me thinks I might have carved out a little escape route.
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