stylisticiann.
/stʌɪlɪˈstɪʃən/ One who studies stylistics.
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stylistician1939
stylometrist1953
1939 Language 15 257 One misses the subtler approach of the ‘stylisticians’ of today.
1948 L. Spitzer Linguistics & Lit. Hist. iv. 136 In general, stylisticians have rather shied away from Diderot.
1957 Archivum Linguisticum 9 148 He shares the weakness of other stylisticians, in claiming to have found the Philosopher's Stone.
1969 Crystal & Davy Investigating English Style 12 The stylistician is on precisely the same footing as anyone else.
1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Jan. 28/1 He makes extensive use of the rhetorical device known to stylisticians as ‘free indirect speech’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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