metalanguage

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Etymology

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From meta- +‎ language.

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Noun

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metalanguage (countable and uncountable, plural metalanguages)

  1. (linguistics, translation studies, critical theory) Any language or vocabulary of terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process.
    Coordinate terms: metaemotion, metathought, metaphilosophy
    • 2005, Michael Cronin, edited by Martha Tennent and Benjamins Translation Library, Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for translation and interpreting, page 255:
      In order to talk or theorise about phenomena, one inevitably uses a language that is in effect a metalanguage, a special instance of language that allows the theorist to stand back and describe what is happening.
  2. (computing) Any similar language used to define a programming language
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