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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

heteroglossia en · NOUN

Etymology

From hetero- + -glossia.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The coexistence of distinct linguistic varieties, styles of discourse, or points of view within a single language, as in a literary work.
    • A superficial impression of Asia may be of disorder, whereas this condition is in fact the immediate historicity that speaks for an undertheorised heteroglossia. 2017, Francis Chia-Hui Lin, Architectural Theorisations and Phenomena in Asia, page 194:

Relateds

heteroglossic

Translations (3)

sv heteroglossi (coexistence of distinct language varieties) · ga heitribhéascna (coexistence of distinct language varieties) · pt heteroglossia (coexistence of distinct language varieties)