What is "metanalysis"

1914, from meta- + analysis. Coined by Danish philologist Otto Jespersen (1860-1943).

n. 1 analysis of analyses. 2 (context linguistics English) The act of breaking down a word or phrase into segments or meanings not original to it; breaking down the boundaries between words or other units.

Metanalysis may refer to:

• Meta-analysis, when studies and statistics are combined
• Rebracketing, when words are broken down in different ways