linguistic profiling

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

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Questions about linguistic profiling

What does linguistic profiling mean?

linguistic profiling means "using speech characteristics or dialect to identify a speaker's race or religion or social class".

Is linguistic profiling a common word?

linguistic profiling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.