heteroglot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroglots
Etymology: From hetero- + -glot.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2002, Michael J. Shapiro, Reading "Adam Smith": Desire, History and Value, →ISBN, page 98:
text: A plurality of voices, those of the author, narrators and characters, interact in a dialogue creating a heteroglot, a multi-languaged text.
ref: 2002, María Teresa Medeiros-Lichem, Reading the Feminine Voice in Latin American Women's Fiction, →ISBN, page 14:
text: In place of the monologue is a heteroglot, so to speak, of a multitude of voices, sociolects, dialects, registers and styles.
ref: 2005, Shi-xu, Manfred Kienpointner, & Jan Servaes, Read the Cultural Other, →ISBN, page 219:
glosses: An amalgam of multiple languages or dialects.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2002, Mary F. Brewer, Exclusions in Feminist Thought, →ISBN, page 109:
text: 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.
ref: 2003, Antony William Alumkal, Asian American Evangelical Churches, →ISBN, page 22:
text: 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.
ref: 2006, Kathryn M. Benson, Conversations of Curriculum Reform, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: A mixture of multiple worldviews.
examples: text: For Bakhtin, language exists as a multi-voiced amalgam of social, political and professional dialects, or heteroglots.
ref: 1999, David K. Allen, Thomas D. Wilson, Exploring the contexts of information behaviour, →ISBN, page 521:
text: 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.
ref: 2014, Jeremy Scott, Creative Writing and Stylistics, →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: One of a multiplicity of languages; dialect.
examples: text: ... 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.
ref: 1984, Philip Potter, Pauline Webb, Faith and faithfulness, →ISBN, page 31:
text: 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..."
ref: 1992, Michael K. Silber, Jews in the Hungarian Economy, 1760-1945, page 26:
text: 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.
ref: 2013, Urszula Clark, Language and Identity in Englishes, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: A person who speaks a different language.