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metalinguistic, a. and n.|mɛtəlɪŋˈgwɪstɪk|
[f. meta- + linguistic a. (cf. metalanguage).]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to a metalanguage, or to metalinguistics (see B).
B. n. pl. Trager's term for that branch of linguistics which is concerned with the relation of language to the other elements of a culture (see also quot. 1974). Hence metaˈlinguist n., metalinˈguistically adv.
1944Mind LIII. 26 It cannot occur at the zero-level (it is a metalinguistic statement). 1944H. Reichenbach in P. A. Schilpp Philos. B. Russell 53 The use of a metalinguistic vocabulary is not a sufficient criterion for a more advanced state of logical analysis. 1949G. L. Trager in Studies in Ling.: Occasional Papers i. 7 The full statement of the..relations between the language and any of the other cultural systems will contain all the ‘meanings’ of the linguistic forms, and will constitute the metalinguistics of that culture. 1951Trager & Smith Outl. Eng. Struct. 83 The metalinguist can turn it [sc. a datum] into a conclusion by clearly identifying out the microlinguistic characteristics of the speech. 1951Language XXVII. iii. 212 The discussion of linguistic research techniques is not a linguistics as we have known it, but rather a metalinguistics. 1952R. M. Hare Lang. Morals i. iii. 38 A metalinguistic analysis is tempting. Ibid., Some hypothetical imperatives might be analysed metalinguistically. 1953C. E. Bazell Ling. Form viii. 98 The study of micro-criteria, whether phonetic or semantic, belongs to metalinguistics. 1966J. J. Katz Philos. of Lang. v. 222 S is metalinguistically true if, and only if, the semantically interpreted underlying phrase marker for its constituent sentence satisfies the condition in the reading for its metalinguistic predicate. 1967C. L. Wrenn Word & Symbol 4 The rather programmatic ‘science’ of metalinguistics recognises the need to study language and culture in intimate relationship. 1972G. H. Fisher Public Diplomacy v. 119 This aspect of comparative linguistics is in its infancy. Anthropologists and linguistic scientists..call it ‘metalinguistics’. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VI. 827/3 Some linguists use the term metalinguistics in reference to the study of metalanguages, languages or codes used to discuss or describe other languages. |