metalanguage
Noun
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Noun
metalanguage
- (linguistics, translation studies, critical theory) Any language or vocabulary of specialized terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process.
- 2005, Michael Cronin, Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for translation and interpreting, edited by Martha Tennent, Benjamins Translation Library, p. 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.
- 2005, Michael Cronin, Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for translation and interpreting, edited by Martha Tennent, Benjamins Translation Library, p. 255:
- (computing) Any similar language used to define a programming language.
- French: métalangage
- German: Metasprache
- Italian: metalinguaggio
- Portuguese: metalinguagem
- Russian: метаязы́к
- French: métalangage
- German: Metasprache
- Italian: metalingua
- Portuguese: metalinguagem
- Russian: метаязы́к
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