| 释义 |
metalingual, a.|mɛtəˈlɪŋgwəl|
[f. meta- + lingual a.]
= metalinguistic a.
1950Mind LIX. 490 Due.. to the common confusion of words and things its metalingual character has been overlooked. 1961Word XVII. ii. 128 To these R. Jakobson has recently added three more functions—the poetic, phatic and metalingual. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. iii. 45 In this volume the words metalanguage and metalingual refer to that part of language which is used in speaking about language itself, namely, the terms designating all the various features of language and the way these are used in describing and talking about languages. |