metalanguage

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• Literature is interpreted not through the language of literature (by poetic language) but through a specific cognitive metalanguage.

  Academic text (2006)

• In other words, the language of the literary work is necessary, not the metalanguage of the interpretation.

  Academic text (2006)

• Go "Meta" and teach students metalanguage and technical vocabulary.

  Academic text (2012)

• The oral and written responses of students in grades 3-7 also demonstrated the development of a metalanguage to talk about the metafictive devices.

  Academic text (2014)

• Although in its rhetoric, postmodern criticism might present its object as "created" or "constructed" by theoretical models and hence as two merging practices, the distinction between metalanguage and object language is, in fact, retained.

  Academic text (1995)

• Such a conception is probably impossible or at least highly improbable, though perhaps to note that it has not yet been conceived or to begin imagining it in a metalanguage is, in a sense, to inaugurate its eventuality in thought.

  Academic text (1995)

• While metonymy plays a part in the development of ideas, as in their meaningful ordering, it remains alien to the metalanguage, and "easily defies interpretation" (ibid).

  Academic text (1991)

• In linguistics, a metalanguage allows us to discuss the structural features of a language in detail.

• Teachers often use a specific metalanguage to help students understand grammar and syntax.

• The concept of metalanguage is important for analyzing how people communicate about different languages.

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