LINGUISTIC PROFILING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does linguistic profiling mean? 

• LINGUISTIC PROFILING (noun)
  The noun LINGUISTIC PROFILING has 1 sense:

1. using speech characteristics or dialect to identify a speaker's race or religion or social class

  Familiarity information: LINGUISTIC PROFILING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINGUISTIC PROFILING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Using speech characteristics or dialect to identify a speaker's race or religion or social class

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("linguistic profiling" is a kind of...):

identification (evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing)