Meaning of heteroglot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An amalgam of multiple languages or dialects.
2. A mixture of multiple worldviews.
3. One of a multiplicity of languages; dialect.
4. A person who speaks a different language.

Examples

“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.”

“A plurality of voices, those of the author, narrators and characters, interact in a dialogue creating a heteroglot, a multi-languaged text.”

“In place of the monologue is a heteroglot, so to speak, of a multitude of voices, sociolects, dialects, registers and styles.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“For Bakhtin, language exists as a multi-voiced amalgam of social, political and professional dialects, or heteroglots.”

“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.”

“... 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.”

“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..."”

“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.”

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