homoglossia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The presence of a single linguistic variety, style of discourse, or point of view, as in a literary work.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From homo- + -glossia.