metalanguage
metalanguage
Definition
meta·lan·guage (met′ə laŋ′gwij)
noun
Linguis. a language used to describe or discuss another language
metalanguage
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- use: In the project I use computational metalanguage to denote and so render these names computationally tractable.
- call: Often inaccurately called metalanguage ( Hockett called it " reflexivity " ), this is part of our everyday toolkit for effective communication.
Preposition: in
- formation: Top of page Alan Fortune Student metalanguage in collaborative rule formation and pushed output Alan Fortune discussed student metalanguage in text reconstruction.
Adjective modifier
- computational: It uses a monadic intermediate language, MIL, based on Moggi's computational metalanguage.
- appropriate: Popper concluded: " Thus it is possible... to speak in an appropriate metalanguage about a statement and a ( purported ) fact.
Noun used with modifier
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