Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The existence, within a society or literary description of a society, of many varieties of a single language, such as regional dialects and varieties associated with class and gender, that are acted upon by social forces that compete to assimilate the varieties to a standard or to maintain or increase differentiation among them.
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- noun linguistics the coexistence of distinct
varieties within a single linguistic code
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most of the mouth-filling terms he coined – dialogism, double-voicedness, chronotope, heteroglossia, multi-accentuality – have passed into the lexicon of contemporary criticism.
Speedlinking 6/29/07 William Harryman 2007
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The two dialogic conflicts in this passage correspond to the twin varieties of heteroglossia.
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As we move into the twentieth century, and as we turn to the works of Mark Twain, we encounter two formulations of linguistic variety, heteroglossia and cacophony, that minimize or deny underlying unity.
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At times heteroglossia nearly pushes upward from the substructure of Twain's fiction to become an overt theme.
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As Bakhtin uses it, heteroglossia is a term not susceptible of easy definition.
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He also conducted nearly 100 interviews with musicians and writers and presents their memories and views, some of them clashing, in hopes that "a useful story might be realized out of the many voices heard in this book, the maelstrom of heteroglossia in which we nervously tread water."
The Chicago Blog 2009
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He also conducted nearly 100 interviews with musicians and writers and presents their memories and views, some of them clashing, in hopes that "a useful story might be realized out of the many voices heard in this book, the maelstrom of heteroglossia in which we nervously tread water."
The Chicago Blog 2009
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He also conducted nearly 100 interviews with musicians and writers and presents their memories and views, some of them clashing, in hopes that "a useful story might be realized out of the many voices heard in this book, the maelstrom of heteroglossia in which we nervously tread water."
The Chicago Blog 2009
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He also conducted nearly 100 interviews with musicians and writers and presents their memories and views, some of them clashing, in hopes that "a useful story might be realized out of the many voices heard in this book, the maelstrom of heteroglossia in which we nervously tread water."
The Chicago Blog 2009
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He also conducted nearly 100 interviews with musicians and writers and presents their memories and views, some of them clashing, in hopes that "a useful story might be realized out of the many voices heard in this book, the maelstrom of heteroglossia in which we nervously tread water."
The Chicago Blog 2009
tree commented on the word heteroglossia
see Virginia Woolf's 'The Waves'.
March 20, 2007
madamepsychosis commented on the word heteroglossia
see David Foster Wallace's "The Infinite Jest"
April 5, 2007