Dietmar Elyashevich Rosenthal ( rus, Ди́тмар Элья́шевич Розента́ль, p=) was a Russian
linguist
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...
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Rosenthal created several Russian-Italian
dictionaries
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and also translated the works of Italian writers into Russian. Together with Prof. Bylinsky he introduced practical
stylistics
Stylistics, a branch of applied linguistics, is the study and interpretation of texts of all types and/or spoken language in regard to their linguistic and tonal style, where style is the particular variety of language used by different individu ...
. He is most famous for the creation of multiple
guidebooks and dictionaries of the
Russian language
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Moscow State University alumni
Linguists from Russia
20th-century linguists
1900 births
1994 deaths
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