heteroglot

English

Etymology

hetero- +‎ -glot

Adjective

heteroglot (not comparable)

1. (music) Having a vibrating reed that is made from a different material than the instrument itself and is often removable.
   • 1992, Albert R. Rice, The Baroque Clarinet, →ISBN, page 1:

     The more specific definition will become useful when we discuss the earliest manifestations of the eighteenth- century clarinet and distinguish these from the closest relative of the clarinet — the chalumeau with a heteroglot reed.

   • 2000, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments, →ISBN, page 130:

     Depending on whether the reeds are single or double, slit from the pipe itself or inserted separately the bagpipe is an idioglot, a heteroglot, or mixed.

   • 2006, Rebecca Berkley, The illustrated complete musical instruments handbook, →ISBN, page 155:

     Some reed-pipes are made not with what is termed an 'idioglot reed' - one sliced from the reed or cane material of the tube itself - but from a 'heteroglot reed', in which the vibrating reed is a separate sliver of reed or other suitable material, these days including plastic tied over an aperture in a reed-bearing mouthpiece.

2. Involving or containing multiple languages, dialects, or idiolects.
   • 1990, Peter Goodrich, Legal Discourse, →ISBN, page 140:

     Any existent language system is first and foremost a heteroglot entity, stratified according to the actually existent social diversity of speech types (dialects, jargons, generic languages and so on).

   • 2006, Ranka Primorac, The Place of Tears: The Novel and Politics in Modern Zimbabwe, →ISBN:

     A heteroglot novel (or 'novelistic hybrid'), he says, is 'an artistically organized system for bringing different languages in contact with one another.

   • 2012, Francesco Grande, Jan Jaap De Ruiter, Massimiliano Spotti, Mother Tongue and Intercultural Valorization, →ISBN, page 9:

     This situation, however, is in sharp contrast with the findings of ethnographic research that reconstruct a discontinuity between monoglot language policy set up in education and heteroglot language repertoires brought along by immigrant minority pupils.

   • 2013, Jeff Jaeckle, Film Dialogue, →ISBN, page 97:

     Despite the length and interiority of many contemporaneous novels, their heteroglot dialogue was far more flexible and expressive of a much wider range of social classes and ethnic types.

3. (more generally) Culturally diverse; Involving multiple points of view.
   • 2007, Julian Stern, Schools and Religions: Imagining the Real, →ISBN, page 26:

     This is essential in plural, heteroglot communities, if the school is to be inclusive, and is essential in those school subjects which are contentious and contended.

   • 2009, Lawrence Buell, Writing for an Endangered World, →ISBN, page 103:

     Yet such defects are trivial compared with his grasp of early modern city-dwelling as a heteroglot assemblage of discontinuities, as a sensory overload out of which intimations of order fleetingly emerge, as a state of being in which consciousness and identity are continually shaped and reshaped via interaction, in which solitary and collective personhood are fused in unstable synthesis.

   • 2014, Vincent Leitch, Theory Matters, →ISBN:

     A key innovation of the carnivalesque, heteroglot, disorganized culture of postmodernity is the notion of multiple subject positions, in which subjectivity emerges as a sociohistorical construct cobbled together from the many roles and situations occupied, willingly or not, by "persons" whose agency and values, fantasies and desires, cohere in contradiction.

Noun

heteroglot (plural heteroglots)

1. An amalgam of multiple languages or dialects.
   • 2002, Michael J. Shapiro, Reading "Adam Smith": Desire, History and Value, →ISBN, page 98:

     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 that threaten both self-understanding and mutual intelligibility — makes an implicit point.

   • 2002, María Teresa Medeiros-Lichem, Reading the Feminine Voice in Latin American Women's Fiction, →ISBN, page 14:

     A plurality of voices, those of the author, narrators and characters, interact in a dialogue creating a heteroglot, a multi-languaged text.

   • 2005, Shi-xu, Manfred Kienpointner, & Jan Servaes, Read the Cultural Other, →ISBN, page 219:

     In place of the monologue is a heteroglot, so to speak, of a multitude of voices, sociolects, dialects, registers and styles.

2. A mixture of multiple worldviews.
   • 2002, Mary F. Brewer, Exclusions in Feminist Thought, →ISBN, page 109:

     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.

   • 2003, Antony William Alumkal, Asian American Evangelical Churches, →ISBN, page 22:

     Applying Bakhtin's concept to this study, the second-generation ethnic church can be viewed as a heteroglot in which discourse drawn from the ethnic group, the American evangelical subculture, and the broader American society intersect in a dialogical relationship.

   • 2006, Kathryn M. Benson, Conversations of Curriculum Reform, →ISBN, page 70:

     In postpositivist research, the search for a heteroglot of voices, the contradictions of subjectivities, and the essence of the lived moment is an attempt to offer a fleeting glimpse of what it is to be alive — to speak, to listen, to do, to learn, to exist.

3. One of a multiplicity of languages; dialect.
   • 1999, David K. Allen, Thomas D. Wilson, Exploring the contexts of information behaviour, →ISBN, page 521:

     For Bakhtin, language exists as a multi-voiced amalgam of social, political and professional dialects, or heteroglots.

   • 2014, Jeremy Scott, Creative Writing and Stylistics, →ISBN, page 155:

     Dialogism can take place on different levels: between a speaker and listener (where the former anticipates the response of the latter), and between the different heteroglots that go to make up language as a whole.

4. A person who speaks a different language.
   • 1984, Philip Potter, Pauline Webb, Faith and faithfulness, →ISBN, page 31:

     ... 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.

   • 1992, Michael K. Silber, Jews in the Hungarian Economy, 1760-1945, page 26:

     For example, the statistician M. Schwartner remarked: "The ordinary Hungarian from the middle and lower classes is not very responsive to the whistles and cries of the heteroglots surrounding him..."

   • 2013, Urszula Clark, Language and Identity in Englishes, →ISBN, page 159:

     At the same time, varieties persist, almost like a thorn in the side of monoglots, as polyglots and aspiring heteroglots gently mock their monolithic and one-sided worldview.

Antonyms

• idioglot