英和和英

語源

From inform +‎ -ant.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɪnˈfɔːmənt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɪnˈfɔɹmənt/

名詞

informant (plural informants)

1. One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
   • 2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticing House Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, in AV Club‎:

     One of her chief informants is Alicent’s handmaiden Talya (Alexis Rabin), whose inside info runs so deep that she’s the first to catch wind of Viserys’ death.

2. (linguistics, proscribed in the US and Canada) A native speaker who acts as a linguistic reference for a language being studied. The informant demonstrates native pronunciation, provides grammaticality judgments regarding linguistic well-formedness, and may also explain cultural references and other important contextual information.
   • 1977, A. E. Kibrik, The methodology of field investigations in linguistics:

     The only material the linguist has to begin with are the informant's grammatical utterances in the target language pronounced arbitrarily in a natural or assigned communicative situation or stimulated artificially by the investigator.

   • 2003, Sergei Nirenburg, H. L. Somers, Yorick Wilks, Readings in machine translation, page 116:

     The informant learns his language by formal training and, more importantly, by constant exposure to its use. He cannot repeat to the linguist what he has never seen or heard.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:informant

Preferred linguistic term in the US and Canada:

• consultant

派生語

参考

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