Educational and other language policies reflect linguicism (see below).

Linguicism, of course, applies to written as well as spoken language.

Here and elsewhere the terms 'standard' and 'non-standard' make analysis of linguicism difficult.

Linguistic discrimination (also called linguicism and languagism) is the unfair treatment of an individual based solely on their use of language.

Review Article: Ironising the myth of Linguicism.

In the mid-1980s, linguist Tove Skutnabb-Kangas captured this idea of discrimination based on language as the concept of linguicism.

"Teaching English this way (…) is by no means linked to linguicism, but could support an unrestricted way of language choice on the levels of micro- and macro-situations.

Because some African-Americans speak a particular non-standard variety of English which is often seen as substandard, African-Americans are frequently the targets of linguicism.

LINGUICISM, an analogous concept to racism, sexism, classism etc.

The brutality and linguicism against Tamils in Sri Lanka that took the lives of thousands of Tamil lives because of the language they spoke.

Fields of interest: linguistic human rights, minority education, language and power, links between biodiversity and linguistic diversity, bilingualism, language policy, integration, ethnicity, racisms (including linguicism), gender issues.

It could be detrimental, they conclude, for a language teacher to enter the classroom without the necessary reflection and self awareness, as these teachers could unknowingly impose systems of linguistic discrimination (linguicism).

Another theme in Phillipson's work is "linguicism"-the species of prejudice that leads to endangered languages becoming extinct or losing their local eminence due to the rise and competing prominence of English.

Kangas defined linguicism as the ideologies and structures used to "legitimate, effectuate, and reproduce unequal division of power and resources (both material and non-material) between groups which are defined on the basis of language."

While, theoretically, any individual may be the victim of linguicism regardless of social and ethnic status, oppressed and marginalized social minorities are often its most consistent targets, due to the fact that the speech varieties that come to be associated with such groups have a tendency to be stigmatized.

Another form of linguicism is evidenced by the following: in some parts of the United States, a person who has a strong Mexican accent and uses only simple English words may be thought of as poor, poorly educated, and possibly an illegal immigrant by many of the people who meet them.

Rajesh Sachdeva, director of CIIL at the Bhasha Confluence, said the exercise of New Linguistic Survey of India had to be abandoned with "the government developing cold feet", in the fear that this survey may lead to revival of linguicism or linguistic imperialism.