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
- (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
- metalanguages
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include metametalanguage, metalinguist, macrolinguistics, metalinguistics, metasemantics, linguisticization.
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