# heteroglot
## English
### Etymology

From hetero- +‎ -glot.

### Adjective

heteroglot (not comparable)
* (music) Having a vibrating reed that is made from a different material than the instrument itself and is often removable.
** 1992, Albert R. Rice, The Baroque Clarinet, →ISBN, page 1:The more specific definition will become useful when we discuss the earliest manifestations of the eighteenth- century clarinet and distinguish these from the closest relative of the clarinet — the chalumeau with a heteroglot reed.
** 2000, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments, →ISBN, page 130:Depending on whether the reeds are single or double, slit from the pipe itself or inserted separately the bagpipe is an idioglot, a heteroglot, or mixed.
** 2006, Rebecca Berkley, The illustrated complete musical instruments handbook, →ISBN, page 155:Some reed-pipes are made not with what is termed an 'idioglot reed' - one sliced from the reed or cane material of the tube itself - but from a 'heteroglot reed', in which the vibrating reed is a separate sliver of reed or other suitable material, these days including plastic tied over an aperture in a reed-bearing mouthpiece.
* Involving or containing multiple languages, dialects, or idiolects.
** 1990, Peter Goodrich, Legal Discourse, →ISBN, page 140:Any existent language system is first and foremost a heteroglot entity, stratified according to the actually existent social diversity of speech types (dialects, jargons, generic languages and so on).
** 2006, Ranka Primorac, The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe, →ISBN:A heteroglot novel (or 'novelistic hybrid'), he says, is 'an artistically organized system for bringing different languages in contact with one another.
** 2012, Francesco Grande, Jan Jaap De Ruiter, Massimiliano Spotti, Mother Tongue and Intercultural Valorization, →ISBN, page 9:This situation, however, is in sharp contrast with the findings of ethnographic research that reconstruct a discontinuity between monoglot language policy set up in education and heteroglot language repertoires brought along by immigrant minority pupils.
** 2013, Jeff Jaeckle, Film Dialogue, →ISBN, page 97:Despite the length and interiority of many contemporaneous novels, their heteroglot dialogue was far more flexible and expressive of a much wider range of social classes and ethnic types.
* (more generally) Culturally diverse; Involving multiple points of view.
** 2007, Julian Stern, Schools and Religions: Imagining the Real, →ISBN, page 26:This is essential in plural, heteroglot communities, if the school is to be inclusive, and is essential in those school subjects which are contentious and contended.
** 2009, Lawrence Buell, Writing for an Endangered World, →ISBN, page 103:Yet such defects are trivial compared with his grasp of early modern city-dwelling as a heteroglot assemblage of discontinuities, as a sensory overload out of which intimations of order fleetingly emerge, as a state of being in which consciousness and identity are continually shaped and reshaped via interaction, in which solitary and collective personhood are fused in unstable synthesis.
** 2014, Vincent Leitch, Theory Matters, →ISBN:A key innovation of the carnivalesque, heteroglot, disorganized culture of postmodernity is the notion of multiple subject positions, in which subjectivity emerges as a sociohistorical construct cobbled together from the many roles and situations occupied, willingly or not, by "persons" whose agency and values, fantasies and desires, cohere in contradiction.

### Noun

heteroglot (plural heteroglots)
* An amalgam of multiple languages or dialects.
** 2002, Michael J. Shapiro, Reading "Adam Smith": Desire, History and Value, →ISBN, page 98:Although this question is never explicitly raised in the film, the postmodern, dystopian world within which the action takes place -- a world that is overcoded, that contains an unmanageable jumble of advertising appeals from disembodied voices along with a heteroglot of language and speech styles that threaten both self-understanding and mutual intelligibility — makes an implicit point.
** 2002, María Teresa Medeiros-Lichem, Reading the Feminine Voice in Latin American Women's Fiction, →ISBN, page 14:A plurality of voices, those of the author, narrators and characters, interact in a dialogue creating a heteroglot, a multi-languaged text.
** 2005, Shi-xu, Manfred Kienpointner, & Jan Servaes, Read the Cultural Other, →ISBN, page 219:In place of the monologue is a heteroglot, so to speak, of a multitude of voices, sociolects, dialects, registers and styles.
* A mixture of multiple worldviews.
** 2002, Mary F. Brewer, Exclusions in Feminist Thought, →ISBN, page 109:As a result of this conflicted consumption, her production is also a site of contestation, a heteroglot of Shona and Western signs, along with signs of anti-colonial and anti-patriarchal struggle.
** 2003, Antony William Alumkal, Asian American Evangelical Churches, →ISBN, page 22:Applying Bakhtin's concept to this study, the second-generation ethnic church can be viewed as a heteroglot in which discourse drawn from the ethnic group, the American evangelical subculture, and the broader American society intersect in a dialogical relationship.
** 2006, Kathryn M. Benson, Conversations of Curriculum Reform, →ISBN, page 70:In postpositivist research, the search for a heteroglot of voices, the contradictions of subjectivities, and the essence of the lived moment is an attempt to offer a fleeting glimpse of what it is to be alive — to speak, to listen, to do, to learn, to exist.
* One of a multiplicity of languages; dialect.
** 1999, David K. Allen, Thomas D. Wilson, Exploring the contexts of information behaviour, →ISBN, page 521:For Bakhtin, language exists as a multi-voiced amalgam of social, political and professional dialects, or heteroglots.
** 2014, Jeremy Scott, Creative Writing and Stylistics, →ISBN, page 155:Dialogism can take place on different levels: between a speaker and listener (where the former anticipates the response of the latter), and between the different heteroglots that go to make up language as a whole.
* A person who speaks a different language.
** 1984, Philip Potter, Pauline Webb, Faith and faithfulness, →ISBN, page 31:... is by contrast mighty even among these who speak other languages (the heteroglots) ; the former proved easier to dismantle than a spider's web whereas the latter has become hard as diamond.
** 1992, Michael K. Silber, Jews in the Hungarian Economy, 1760-1945, page 26:For example, the statistician M. Schwartner remarked: "The ordinary Hungarian from the middle and lower classes is not very responsive to the whistles and cries of the heteroglots surrounding him..."
** 2013, Urszula Clark, Language and Identity in Englishes, →ISBN, page 159:At the same time, varieties persist, almost like a thorn in the side of monoglots, as polyglots and aspiring heteroglots gently mock their monolithic and one-sided worldview.

### Antonyms

* idioglot