Homoglossia

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Noun
  1. 1
    The presence of a single linguistic variety, style of discourse, or point of view, as in a literary work. uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From homo- + -glossia.

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