Definition of heteroglossia in English:
heteroglossia
nounˌhɛtərəʊˈɡlɒsɪəˌhedərōˈɡläsēə
mass nounThe presence of two or more expressed viewpoints in a text or other artistic work.
Example sentencesExamples
- Movies are a mode whose elastic form, by turns comic, ironic, and parodic, can tolerate heteroglossia that would wreck more narrowly defined forms.
- Oreo displays Ross's appreciation for the diverse influences that contribute to America's cultural heterogeneity and its linguistic heteroglossia.
- Old neoclassical debates over aesthetic unity found themselves recycled as conflicts between New Critical coherence and later emphases on faultlines and heteroglossia.
- In the seminal essay ‘Discourse in the Novel,’ Mikhail Bakhtin introduces the concept of heteroglossia as a way of ordering the linguistic play and confusion of the English comic novel.
- A satirical effect of the novel is to contrast the heteroglossia of America's diverse vernaculars with the conventional stereotyping of ethnicity in popular culture.
Derivatives
adjective
We can only conclude then that the refracted intent of this heteroglossic and multi-voiced dialogue is to further a positive interaction between African American and white through evoking a common past.
Example sentencesExamples
- The heteroglossic and dialogical sketches created by Langston Hughes are essentially dialogues.
- This function of artistic organization poses a theoretical difficulty, for it signifies in fact nothing other than a subduing and disciplining of heteroglossic impulses.
- As she does so, Ross also shares with her reader the difficult choices the author confronts as she attempts to represent the diversity of her characters' speech and to create a heteroglossic novel.
- Internal contradictions… are an inevitable part of such a heteroglossic approach.
Origin
1980s: from hetero- + Greek glōssa 'tongue, language' + -ia1.