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English
Etymology
From homo- + -glossia.
Noun
homoglossia (uncountable)
- (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, 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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