Semiotician

And so Dangerfield, who told audiences that as a child he was so ugly that his mother fed him with a slingshot, became the leading semiotician of postwar American comedy.

Different authors have called themselves "philosopher of language" or "semiotician".

Musical semiotics further Semiotician Roman Jakobson Music semiology ( semiotics ) is the study of signs as they pertain to music on a variety of levels.