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A language that can be used to describe languages
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metalanguage
Word definitions for metalanguage in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
metalanguage \metalanguage\ n. Any language that can be used to describe another language or system of symbols.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Broadly, any metalanguage is language or symbols used when language itself is being discussed or examined. In logic and linguistics , a metalanguage is a language used to make statements about statements in another language (the object language ). Expressions ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a language that can be used to describe languages
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context linguistics translation studies critical theory English) Any language or vocabulary of specialized terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process. 2 (context computing English) Any similar language used to define a programming ...
Usage examples of metalanguage.
His obligations grow particularly urgent when the object language and the metalanguage no longer agree.
To return language to its origins, Kraus develops a style of writing that itself moves towards the metalanguage that Tarski advocates as the basis of semantics.
John Martels instead, but to do so would require several pages of expressions in the metalanguage in-vented by Dr.
A thicket of metalanguage setting the namers at an ever-greater remove from the named.
To keep a spatial metaphor, the approximative character of which I have already stressed, I shall say that the signification of the myth is constituted by a sort of constantly moving turnstile which presents alternately the meaning of the signifier and its form, a language-object and a metalanguage, a purely signifying and a purely imagining consciousness.
There is therefore one language which is not mythical, it is the language of man as a producer: wherever man speaks in order to transform reality and no longer to preserve it as an image, wherever he links his language to the making of things, metalanguage is referred to a language-object, and myth is impossible.
On the job, where hardcopy now-do-this instructions were of essence, boppers used zeroes-and-ones machine language supplemented by a high-speed metalanguage of glyphs and macros.
By and large we have been able to communicate, because we share the metalanguage of science fiction.