folk linguistics

English

Noun

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.

See also

• folk etymology

Further reading

• folk linguistics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia