A linguist is someone who studies or is an expert in languages. They understand how languages work, including their structure, grammar, and how people use words to communicate. Full definition
The Washington Post has a fascinating article on the work of linguists who are looking at every line of dialogue from Disney princess movies and analyzing them for their representations of women. (gizmodo.com)
Amy Adams stars as Dr. Louise Banks, an expert linguist who is recruited by the military to communicate with aliens who have landed on the planet and determine wether or not they come in peace. (nextprojection.com)
Do we have an innate «grammar» of aesthetics analogous to the syntactic universals for languages proposed by linguist Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology? (scientificamerican.com)