Informer vs Informant - What's the difference?
informer | informant |
One who informs someone else about something.
A person who tells authorities about improper or illegal activity.
One who informs, animates, or inspires.
* Alexander Pope
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)
Informant is a synonym of informer.
As nouns the difference between informer and informant
is that informer is one who informs someone else about something while informant is one who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.informer
English
Alternative forms
* informor (qualifier) * informour (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)- (Thomson)
- Nature, informer of the poet's art.
Synonyms
* informant * See alsoSee also
* name namesAnagrams
* ----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.
