Question

David is a college student who knows the different linguistic habits appropriate to his mother and stepfather's home, his father's home, his university residence hall, his anthropology class, his job at an elegant restaurant, and his religious tradition. The term used in the text to describe his complex linguistic knowledge is:_________

Answer 1

heteroglossia

Explanation:

Heteroglossia -

The term is given to explain the presence of many varieties of language within a single language .

The term heteroglossia was firstly given in 1934 by the Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin .

The person is called a heteroglossia , when he is able to easily adapt or speak many language , as in the case of David .

David can very well who the linguistic habit of many languages .