metadiscoursen.
/ˈmɛtəˌdɪskɔːs/, U.S. /ˈmɛdəˌdɪskɔrs/ Linguistics.
Any discourse which is concerned with or alludes to other discourses. Also: a general or universal discourse which sets the parameters within which other discourses are employed.
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1960 Philos. Rev. 69 124 This part of the book contains also a brief discussion of the method of hypothetical reconstruction, including material on ‘meta-discourse’, the theoretical status of models, the criteria of a good hypothesis, and so forth.
1978 18th-cent. Stud. 11 329 The revelation bears too on the powerlessness of the victims to make their private understanding prevail in the face of a metadiscourse that subsumes all such understanding.
1998 Appl. Linguistics 19 237 One aspect of increased explicitness might be increased use of metadiscourse.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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