heteroglots

Noun

heteroglot (plural heteroglots)

1. An amalgam of multiple languages or dialects.
   • 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...2002, Michael J. Shapiro, Reading "Adam Smith": Desire, History and Value, →ISBN, page 98
2. A mixture of multiple worldviews.
   • 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.2002, Mary F. Brewer, Exclusions in Feminist Thought, →ISBN, page 109
3. One of a multiplicity of languages; dialect.
   • For Bakhtin, language exists as a multi-voiced amalgam of social, political and professional dialects, or heteroglots.1999, David K. Allen, Thomas D. Wilson, Exploring the contexts of information behaviour, →ISBN, page 521
4. A person who speaks a different language.
   • ... 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.1984, Philip Potter, Pauline Webb, Faith and faithfulness, →ISBN, page 31

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