linguisticize

English

Etymology

linguistic +‎ -ize

Verb

linguisticize (third-person singular simple present linguisticizes, present participle linguisticizing, simple past and past participle linguisticized)

1. (transitive) To make linguistic; to reduce to a question of linguistics.
   • 1986, Bruce Kieffer, The Storm and Stress of Language: Linguistic Catastrophe in the Early Works of Goethe, Lenz, Klinger, and Schiller:

     To Gotz, however, such a development is abhorrent; for his purposes the best application of language is obviously the one that "linguisticizes" least.

   • 1996, Paul Redding, Hegel's Hermeneutics, page 39:

     The complexity of the romantic "philological" transformation of Kantian Copernicanism is clearly manifest in the attempts to "linguisticize" the structure of subjectivity, which followed hard upon the heels of Kant's critical philosophy.