dialogist
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- noun
- /ˈdaɪəˌlɒdʒɪst/
- Jargon
- As an accomplished dialogist, she crafted engaging conversations between her characters that captivated readers.
Examples
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Other essays look at unreliability and the mad dialogist, unreliability and epistemological doubt, and at various twentieth-century authors.
Academic text (2004) -
Similarly, the strategists and the dialogists are not distinct.
Academic text (2000) -
The key economic propositions held most naturally by traders have become firmly entrenched in the minds of the strategists, dialogists, and sinologists.
Academic text (2000) -
The play featured a skilled dialogist, whose witty exchanges brought the story to life.
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He is known as a talented dialogist, contributing to numerous dramatic works with his insightful dialogue.
How Dialogical
Surface Forms
Morphology
dialogist = dialogue (transparent) = dialog + ist
The suffix '-ist' clearly indicates a person involved in or practicing something, making the meaning derivable from 'dialogue'.
Etymology
Dialogist comes from dialogue plus the ending -ist, a common way to make a word for a person. Dialogue itself comes from Greek dia- 'through' and -logos 'speech', so a dialogist is someone who writes or takes part in conversations, for example in books, plays, or scripts.