multivocal
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of multivocal
Example Sentences
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Then there’s the form, which attempts to expand the monologue into something more communal and multivocal.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
The novel’s multivocal structure gives each narrator equal weight; the collective theme that no one can ever know what another person is thinking or experiencing comes at the price of never seeing the whole truth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2022
The humor associated with black language play—with jokers like Pryor and Bernie Mac—directly descends from this multivocal tradition, and from the trouble that made it necessary.
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017
The clear purpose of the multivocal narrative is to let you piece together the apparently strange world of the Congo from these different accounts.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2013
This narrowness of exposition becomes doubly evident when we give consideration to two other elements in primitive symbolism—the multivocal nature of early designs, and the misapprehensions due to contiguous association.
From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
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