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' What is a hybridization? It is a mixture of two social languages within the limits of a single utterance, an encounter, within the arena of an utterance, between two different linguistic consciousnesses, separated from one another by an epoch, by social differentiation or by some other factor... '

Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination (1975, tr. 1981), p. 358: