Meaning of alloglottography | Babel Free

Definitions

A direct translation of an utterance from one language to another such that the original utterance can be unambiguously and correctly recovered.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“For Iranian-speaking scribes, alloglottography would be rather preposterous.”

“With a narrow definition of alloglottography, one that sees language learning via speech as inherent to scribal education and scribal life, I could definitely agree⟳.”

“Some texts extend⟳ alloglottography over entire clauses or even a whole text.”

“Such narratives almost inevitably lead⟳ to the postulation of neat trees of dialect divergence out of the homogenous standard of an assumed prestige koiné, and to widespread neglect⟳ of colloquial, technical, or ritual speech, of loanwords, alloglottographies and similar phenomena.”

CEFR level