heteroglot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + -glot.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1992, Albert R. Rice, The Baroque Clarinet, →ISBN, page 1:
text: 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.
ref: 2000, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments, →ISBN, page 130:
text: 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.
ref: 2006, Rebecca Berkley, The illustrated complete musical instruments handbook, →ISBN, page 155:
topics: entertainment
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glosses: Having a vibrating reed that is made from a different material than the instrument itself and is often removable.
examples: text: 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).
ref: 1990, Peter Goodrich, Legal Discourse, →ISBN, page 140:
text: A heteroglot novel (or 'novelistic hybrid'), he says, is 'an artistically organized system for bringing different languages in contact with one another.
ref: 2006, Ranka Primorac, The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe, →ISBN:
text: 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.
ref: 2012, Francesco Grande, Jan Jaap De Ruiter, Massimiliano Spotti, Mother Tongue and Intercultural Valorization, →ISBN, page 9:
text: 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.
ref: 2013, Jeff Jaeckle, Film Dialogue, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: Involving or containing multiple languages, dialects, or idiolects.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2007, Julian Stern, Schools and Religions: Imagining the Real, →ISBN, page 26:
text: 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.
ref: 2009, Lawrence Buell, Writing for an Endangered World, →ISBN, page 103:
text: 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.
ref: 2014, Vincent Leitch, Theory Matters, →ISBN:
glosses: Culturally diverse; Involving multiple points of view.