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variˈationist
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
1. a. One who composes musical variations.
1901J. Huneker Mezzotints Mod. Music 35 Brahms..is not only the greatest variationist of his times, but with Bach and Beethoven the greatest of all times.
b. One who practises variation or introduces variety in anything.
1926H. W. Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 132/1 The writers are confirmed variationists. 1928J. Y. T. Greig Breaking Priscian's Head 66 Mr Fowler..pokes fun at the ‘elegant variationist’. 1981N.Y. Times 25 Jan. ii. 25/4 Johns is by nature a variationist—someone who hates to let a good idea go while there is still something that can be done with it. Ibid. 2 Oct. c28/6 It works wonderfully well in terms of Mr. Judd's skill as a variationist. Every one of the 10 sections of the work has the same basic set of themes.
2. One who studies variations in usage among different speakers of the same language.
1975Amer. Speech 1973 XLVIII. 37 What variationists have discovered is the extraordinary stylistic and sociological importance of such variation, and the apparently remarkable consistency with which the frequency of a given alternant is patterned throughout society and throughout an individual's stylistic repertoire. 1978Archivum Linguisticum IX. 48 Committed variationists..seem to disagree on how variation is to be incorporated into the grammar of a language. 1983Canadian Jrnl. Linguistics XXVIII. i. 82 It is not, however, a problem for the variationists, but for those who would arbitrarily reduce linguistics to a branch of cognitive psychology. |