literalist vs pedant

literalist

noun
  • A person who adheres to the literal representation of a statement or law. 

  • One who works in the style of literalism. 

  • A person who translates a text literally. 

pedant

noun
  • A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. 

  • A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar. 

adj
  • Pedantic. 

How often have the words literalist and pedant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )