Meaning of homoglossia | Babel Free

Definitions

The presence of a single linguistic variety, style of discourse, or point of view, as in a literary work.

uncountable

Examples

“On the one hand, the literary use of Spanish is a mark of resistance to the American notion of a literary homoglossia (to use Bakhtin's term), in particular to the Anglocentrism of the East Coast literary establishment.”

“Discussion of the intertextual relationship in terms of homoglossia emphasizes the lack of stratification and the resultant amplifying effect without obfuscating differences between the content of the texts.”

“This is, undoubtedly, the hierarchically superior discourse—the critics soon detected it—in the dense interdiscourse of a kind of images whose apparent realistic homoglossia transmits a rich and varied critical heterology.”

CEFR level