phraseologist

noun

1. A writer or speaker who coins clever phrases; One who is eloquent.

   “The author of Poetæ Rusticantis literatum Otium is but a mere phraseologist, the philological publisher is but a translator; but I expected better usage from Mr. Abel Roper, who is an original.”

   “In these works Mr. Hardy writes an English of strength and purity, with an almost Latin clearness and weight of words, avoiding for the most part the temptation to be too curious a phraseologist, which has sometimes proved too much for him.”

   “When the officers of the corps made him a visit, he made us no speech; he was not a phraseologist by nature, he spoke but little, but what he said always made an impression, because it came from the heart.”

   “The phraseologist of that ominous question is a southern gentleman named Chanler, who was at one time "convicted" in New York of being out of his in wits and incarcerated an insane asylum .”

2. One who studies or collects phrases

   “Another correspondent, who has 'completed [his] education in the language of Tully, the philosophy of Voltaire, and the amplification of Dr. Johnson, the great Lexiconian phraseologist,' aspires to become the dramatic critic of the journal alluded to, and give the following taste of his quality:”

   “At the other end there is the phraseologist's view that at least one member of the collocation has to be restricted (Howarth 1998b).”

   “In the meantime Valerii Mokienko (1997) has followed my request and published an article on the phrase, indicating that it also entered the Russian language by way of the Anglo-American route, and the Canadian phraseologist Elizabeth Dawes (2007) took up the challenge in her detailed survey outlining the modern loan translation of the phrase into French and Italian (also mentioning the English and German situation once again) and stressing the polysemanticity of it in contextualized references.”

   “I cannot guarantee that I did not miss items that another phraseologist would have wanted to include.”

3. One who specializes in phraseological details of a field.

   “Two further aspects should be underlined: (a) the terminologist is generally also a 'phraseologist' and (b) the task of the terminologist is now recognised as a bona fide job within certain companies.”

   “It is particularly problematic for the phraseologist to presuppose that a modification is properly understood when the reader has been able to work out all the elements/information that the phraseologist has detected in the modification, for it might even go far beyond what the producer, always under time pressure, intended in the first place.”