Informant vs Lister - What's the difference?
informant | lister |
One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.
(linguistics) 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
* 2003 , Sergei Nirenburg, H. L. Somers, Yorick Wilks, Readings in machine translation (page 116)
One who, or that which, lists or produces a listing.
* 1984 , John C. Nash, Effective scientific problem solving with small computers (page 113)
A person or organisation that creates or maintains lists.
As a noun informant
is informant.As a proper noun lister is
.informant
English
(wikipedia informant)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms
* (one who relays confidential information ): blabber, gossip, narc, stool pigeon, tattletale, rat, canary, snitch, stoolie, squealer, grass, bigmouth * See alsoSee also
* name names ----lister
English
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
* leister (fish spear)Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- A good program lister is helpful here, since many language processors allow multi-statement lines. For BASIC, FORTRAN, PASCAL, and similar languages, the lister can split multi-statement lines, ensure there are blanks between keywords