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 | | Heteroglossia is a broader concept than polyphony, a description of speech styles in a language, especially characteristic of the novel but apparent in languages generally (Clark and Holquist 268-70, 290-94; Holquist 69-70; Morson and Emerson 139-45, 232, 309-17). |
 | | In "Discourse in the Novel," Bakhtin describes heteroglossia as a complex mixture of languages and world views that is always, except in some imagined ideal condition, dialogized, as each language is viewed from the perspective of the others. |
 | | This dialogization of languages, dialogized heteroglossia, creates a complex unity, for whatever meaning language has resides neither in the intention of the speaker nor in the text but at a point between speaker or writer, listener or reader (Morson and Emerson 284-90). |
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