Metalanguage

Word METALANGUAGE
Character 12
Hyphenation metalanguage
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Definitions and meanings of "Metalanguage"

What do we mean by metalanguage?

A language or vocabulary used to describe or analyze language. noun

A language used to define another language. noun

Any language that can be used to describe another language or system of symbols. noun

Any language or vocabulary of specialized terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process. noun

Any similar language used to define a programming language. noun

A language that can be used to describe languages noun

(critical theory) Any language or vocabulary of specialized terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process.

Any similar language used to define a programming language.

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The word "metalanguage" in example sentences

On the positive side, the concept of truth can be adequately defined for any formalized language L in a language (the so-called metalanguage), provided it is of higher order than L. ❋ Cantini, Andrea (2007)

But the mathematical part of the metalanguage will be the same, for that's the "sufficiently developed system of mathematical logic" of which Tarski spoke. ❋ Gómez-Torrente, Mario (2006)

They also do not necessarily learn the important "metalanguage" of subject areas, which is so crucial if our learners are to socially interact and discuss ideas in a specific knowledge domain with each other and with authentic experts. ❋ Bill Kerr (2006)

However, our friends, the logicians, have made it clear to us long ago that in any but the simplest languages we must distinguish between an 'object language' and a 'metalanguage'. ❋ Unknown (1972)

In general, Greek letters like φ and ψ are variables of the metalanguage, that is, the language I am using for talking about theories of truth and the language in which this entry is written (i.e., ❋ Halbach, Volker (2007)

"metalanguage" formed by mixing together previously distinct languages or mediums. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A new metalanguage was created and cherished by those who could talk the talk. ❋ Rajiv Naresh (2012)

This glorious mess is an exhausting but also exhilarating archive of language and metalanguage. ❋ Seth Abramson (2011)

Referring to metalanguage, including genus of concept. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hmm. I also agree with you that the metalanguage (noun-like events and verb-like acts) is fairly abstruse and unlikely to be of much practical use in the classroom. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The knowledge imparted and tested consists of English words and their mandarin translation, metalanguage describing English in Mandarin and grammar rules expressed as formulae. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the end, the house represents not merely language but metalanguage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In literature, rather than in a metalanguage about it, and in poetry preeminently, things, more immediately, do not entirely or exclusively say what they say. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But why can't literature — again, not as a metalanguage but as an undertext — make it possible to voice that placeless source, and the virtualities of its constitutive otherness, precisely in such a way that each verbal incident comes to us shadowed by the present tinge of the contingent? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Which is to say the challenge, not faced up to (let alone faced down) by linguistics proper, to speak of the fact of language without a metalanguage: to speak voicing itself, the factum loquendi (73). ❋ Unknown (2008)

This is the metalanguage of race in which you are competing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The seriffed–sanserif contrast can be used to separate definitions (seriffed) from metalanguage (sanserif), providing an axis of contrast analogous to the ‘bold for look-up items, normal weight for text’ that readers are used to. ❋ Paul Luna (2009)

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