localism
/ˈloʊkəˌlɪzəm/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.32 in modern English
Meaning
noun
Attachment to or preference for a particular local place, especially the place where one lives; hence, feelings, opinions, or policies which emphasize or focus on local phenomena; (countable) an instance of this.
Uncountable
noun
Attachment to or preference for a particular local place, especially the place where one lives; hence, feelings, opinions, or policies which emphasize or focus on local phenomena; (countable) an instance of this.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
An approach to understanding linguistic expressions in terms of movement and position (sometimes abstract; for example, one who is hungry is said to be in a notional "space" of hunger).
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[H]e vvas ſtyled a patriot vvho, juſt tovvard his countrymen, and unjuſt to others, vvas blind to the merits of ſtrangers, and believed the very vices of his ovvn country to be perfections.—In ſuch a case, vvhy not reſtrain that love vvithin a narrovver compaſs, to citizens living in the ſame tovvn, or to the members of one family; or vvhy even ſhould not each perſon have concentrated his affections in himſelf? VVe really beheld Patriotiſm, generating Localiſm, the confined ſpirit of families, and at length Egoiſm."
- "[T]hese faux-traditional shops, harking back to an era of localism and pretty clockwork high streets, can help cleave a neighbourhood in two, making very clear the difference in means of those who live nearby."
- "Localism may strengthen not just the selfless (eg, people who want to build a village hall) but also the selfish (who want to stop any new building in their backyard)."
- "Their domestic language was the one their grandparents had brought from Spain across Venezuela in the previous century, revitalized by Caribbean localisms, the Africanisms of slaves, and fragments of the Goajiro language that filtered into ours, drop by drop."
- "Stronger and weaker versions of localism can be distinguished according to the range of grammatical categories and constructions that are brought within its scope. At its weakest, the localist hypothesis is restricted to the incontrovertible fact that temporal expressions, in many unrelated languages, are patently derived from locative expressions. […] The spatialization of time is so obvious and so pervasive a phenomenon in the grammatical and lexical structure of so many of the world's languages that it has been frequently noted, even by scholars who would not think of themselves as subscribing to the hypothesis of localism."
- "Other theoretical approaches that stress the primacy of space or spatial meaning in language with respect to other domains or meanings are localism and case grammar. In localism, spatial expressions are considered the most important category in the lexicon and in grammar."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: *stel-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈloʊkəˌlɪzəm/
- British English: /ˈləʊkəlɪz(ə)m/