Adjective : a multivocal word. From Dictionary.com.
What are the advantages of such a multivocal narrative over one told through a single voice?. From Wordnik.com. [A Mercy by Toni Morrison: Questions] Reference
Yet neither could I construe this history as multivocal or multivalent, as a set of parallel and/or contending voices, narratives, or meanings of Mozambique's past. From Wordnik.com. [Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique] Reference
Postmodernists, on the other hand, are more multivocal in their viewpoint, holding that the ownership of concepts and words is less important than their relevance to culture-making; in art, for example, postmodernists will "appropriate" from anywhere and everywhere, and by redefining the context of the works or snippets, create something new (Andy Warhol's soup cans, above: using "fine art" painting methods to appropriate canned soup). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
A useful instance to illustrate the importance of distinct, and the mischief of equivocal or multivocal, terms. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
Whenever I meet with an ambiguous or multivocal word, without its meaning being shown and fixed, I stand on my guard against a sophism. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
They shrieked, yelled, blared, shrilled, and boomed the scandals and horrors of the moment in multivocal, multigraphic clamor, tainting the peaceful air breathed by everyday people going about their everyday business, with incredible blatancies which would be forgotten on the morrow in the excitement of fresh percussions, though the cumulative effect upon the public mind and appetite might be ineradicable. From Wordnik.com. [Success A Novel] Reference
This is an allusion to Don DeLillo’s Ratner’s Star 1976, a novel which shares some affinities with Infinite Jest, including a boy-genius plotline, multivocal narrative, deep suspicion about the reliability of both personal subjectivity and bureaucratic institutions, and intense theoretical interest in the inner workings of language. From Wordnik.com. [Infinite Summer #3: No Matter How Smart You Thought You Were, You Are Actually Way Less Smart Than That « Gerry Canavan] Reference
Something multivocal, multivisual, multilinear. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
Necessary, indispensable, and the like, are multivocal terms. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
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