multivocality
- noun
- /ˌmʌltiˈvoʊkəlɪti/
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multivocalidad
- The book is rich in multivocality, presenting various characters' perspectives on the same event.
Examples
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Approaches that reduce conspiracy theorizing to a uniform instrument of anti-state resistance thus fail to account for the practice's multivocality as a political strategy.
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Conceptual frames that can accommodate multivocality are required in order to study our continually negotiated selves, livelihoods, and milieux.
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Of course, not all representations of cultural identities are equitable or, at least, open to the traces of multivocality.
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" Words and phrases take the speakers and listener in sometimes surprising directions, adding yet another layer of multivocality to the narrative performance."
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The ramifications of that statement will be examined more fully within the context of analysis pertaining to the multivocality of flag imagery.
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What makes this codex such a significant reflection of colonial semiotic exchanges is the document's multivocality.
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This quick conversation with its dense multivocality indicates the place of bodiliness in political discourse and the productivity of circulation itself.
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The multivocality that is ingrained in this issue is in the notion that ethnographers and those with whom we work are all involved in ongoing processes of thinking about who and where we are, relative to others, and acting on those understandings.
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At the same time, it illustrates the way that multivocality in front region oratory can simultaneously express both local and hegemonic interests through the dialectic of identification and division.
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Not surprisingly, the only evidence of multivocality preserved in DuBois's re-presented texts entails their embedding of the quoted speech of ancient diviners or deities.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
A situation in which a text has different voices and points of view
Several different voices or opinions in a text that talk to each other and shape its meaning
How Many Voices
- Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
multivocality = multivocal (semi-transparent) = multi + vocal + ity
The noun formation is regular, but the literary-theory sense extends from 'having multiple voices' to 'multiple perspectives or meanings,' which is only partly literal.
Etymology
Multivocality comes from multi- 'many' and vocal 'voice', so it literally means 'many voices'. In writing or speech it describes a text or talk that brings different people’s views or meanings together, which is why it helps readers hear many perspectives.
