homoglossia

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Etymology[edit]

homo- +‎ -glossia

Noun[edit]

homoglossia (uncountable)

  1. (sociology, linguistics) The presence of a single linguistic variety, style of discourse, or point of view, as in a literary work.
    • 1999, Paul Beekman Taylor, “Bronzing the Face of American English: The Double Tongue of Chicano Literature”, in Ton Hoenselaars, Marius Buning, editors, English Literature and the Other Languages, BRILL, page 256:
      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.
    • 2013, Anna Kathryn Grau, “Hearing Voices: Heteroglossia, Homoglossia, and the Old French Monet”, in Musica Disciplina, volume 58, →JSTOR, page 81:
      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.
    • 2021, Manuel González de Ávila, “On Narrative Hypersign and Feminine Imaginary: Audrey Flack's Photorealism”, in Popular Inquiry[1], volume 1, page 136:
      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.

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