ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Metalanguage

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Metalanguage is a noun meaning (computing) Any similar language used to define a programming language.

Meaning

(computing) Any similar language used to define a programming language.

More Meanings

  1. (linguistics, translation studies, critical theory) Any language or vocabulary of terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include metametalanguage, metalinguist, macrolinguistics, metalinguistics, metasemantics, linguisticization.

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