Formalist

形式论

A term applied in stylistics to any approach which regards a text as a formal object of study, with an internal structure that can be objectively and formally identified. Such approaches have been primarily associated with East European structural linguists.

风格学术语，指任何一种视篇章为研究的形式对象的理论，认为篇章的内部结构可以客观地从形式上识别。这类理论主要是东欧的结构语言学家提倡的。