homoglossia

Noun

homoglossia (uncountable)

1. The presence of a single linguistic variety, style of discourse, or point of view, as in a literary work.
   • 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.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...
   • 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.2013, Anna Kathryn Grau, “Hearing Voices: Heteroglossia, Homoglossia, and the Old French Monet”, in Musica Disciplina, volume 58, →JSTOR, page 81