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het·ero·glos·sia | \ ˌhe-tə-rō-ˈglä-sē-ə 
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, -ˈglȯ- \Definition of heteroglossia
: a diversity of voices, styles of discourse, or points of view in a literary work and especially a novel
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The first known use of heteroglossia was in 1988
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