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PRONUNCIATION OF METALANGUAGE

metalanguage  [ˈmɛtəˌlæŋɡwɪdʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF METALANGUAGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Metalanguage is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES METALANGUAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Metalanguage

Broadly, any metalanguage is language or symbols used when language itself is being discussed or examined. In logic and linguistics, a metalanguage is a language used to make statements about statements in another language. Expressions in a metalanguage are often distinguished from those in an object language by the use of italics, quotation marks, or writing on a separate line.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH METALANGUAGE


advantage
ədˈvɑːntɪdʒ
age
eɪdʒ
average
ˈævərɪdʒ
bridge
brɪdʒ
college
ˈkɒlɪdʒ
coverage
ˈkʌvərɪdʒ
damage
ˈdæmɪdʒ
heritage
ˈhɛrɪtɪdʒ
image
ˈɪmɪdʒ
knowledge
ˈnɒlɪdʒ
language
ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ
manage
ˈmænɪdʒ
messuage
ˈmɛswɪdʒ
nonlanguage
ˌnɒnˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ
paralanguage
ˈpærəˌlæŋɡwɪdʒ
protolanguage
ˌprəʊtəʊˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ
sandwich
ˈsænwɪdʒ
slanguage
ˈslæŋɡwɪdʒ
squidge
skwɪdʒ
sublanguage
ˈsʌbˌlæŋɡwɪdʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE METALANGUAGE

metal
metal detector
metal fatigue
metal polish
metal spraying
metal tape
metal-like
metal.
metaldehyde
metalepses
metaleptic
metaleptical
metalhead
metalinguistic
metalinguistics
metalist
metalization
metalize
metall.
metalled

WORDS THAT END LIKE METALANGUAGE

American sign language
artificial language
body language
command language
community language
English as a Foreign Language
English as a Second Language
first language
formal language
high-level language
modern language
native language
natural language
plain language
programming language
second language
sign language
source language
speak the same language
target language
Unified Modeling Language

Synonyms and antonyms of metalanguage in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «metalanguage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF METALANGUAGE

Find out the translation of metalanguage to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of metalanguage from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «metalanguage» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

元语言
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

metalenguaje
570 millions of speakers

English

metalanguage
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

metalanguage
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

metalanguage
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

метаязык
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

metalinguagem
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

metalanguage
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

métalangage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Metalanguage
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Metasprache
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

メタ言語
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

메타 언어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Metalanguage
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

siêu ngôn ngữ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

metalanguage
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

धातूची भाषा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

üst dildir
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

metalinguaggio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

metajęzyk
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

метамова
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

metalimbaj
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μεταγλώσσα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

metataal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

meta
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

meta
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of metalanguage

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «METALANGUAGE»

The term «metalanguage» is normally little used and occupies the 113.950 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of metalanguage
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «metalanguage».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «METALANGUAGE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «metalanguage» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «metalanguage» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about metalanguage

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METALANGUAGE»

Discover the use of metalanguage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to metalanguage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Metalanguage: Social and Ideological Perspectives
The book follows from and complements a great tradition of the study of metalanguage, reflexivity, and metapragmatics, and offers a new, integrating perspective from various fields of sociolingustics: perceptual dialectology, variationism, ...
Adam Jaworski, Nikolas Coupland, Dariusz Galasiński, 2004
2
The Metalanguage of Translation
Coming almost forty years later years filled with fascinating and often unexpected developments in the interdiscipline of Translation Studies this volume offers the reader a multiplicity of meta-perspectives, while also moving the ...
Yves Gambier, Luc van Doorslaer, 2009
3
Metalanguage in Interaction: Hebrew Discourse Markers
It constitutes the first monograph in the fields of Hebrew interactional linguistics and Hebrew discourse markers. The book first presents what is unique to the present approach to discourse markers and gives them an operational definition.
Yael Maschler, 2009
4
Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of ...
DIVLooks at the interrelations between models of language in anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, and literary criticism and explores their varied accounts of subjectivity, reference, and narration./div "Lee's extraordinary mastery of so ...
Benjamin Lee, 1997
5
Games and Full Abstraction for a Functional Metalanguage ...
This book develops a theory of game semantics, a recently discovered setting for modelling and reasoning about sequential programming languages, suitable for interpreting higher-order functional languages with rich type structure, and ...
Guy McCusker, 1998
6
Just Words: Moralism and Metalanguage in Twentieth-Century ...
And what about a possible third, synthesizing option? Robert W. Greene discovers that the two apparently divergent intentions in question (metalinguistic vs. moralistic) often paradoxically coexist in French fiction.
Robert W. Greene, 2006
7
MetaSoft Primer: Towards a Metalanguage for Applied ...
The book is devoted to a simplified set-theoretic version of denotational semantics where sets are used in place of Scott's reflexive domains and where jumps are described without continuations.
Andrzej Blikle, 1987
8
Cross-linguistic Semantics
CHAPTER 1 Natural Semantic Metalanguage: The state of the art Cliff Goddard This chapter gives an overview of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach to semantic analysis, originated by Anna Wierzbicka. It enumerates the main ...
Cliff Goddard, 2008
9
Metalanguage and Transcendental Idealism
Interpretive study on the Kantian criticism of metaphysics in the light of transcendental idealism.
Kalyankumar Bagchi, 1972
10
Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts
metalanguage Mela is Greek for 'with' or 'after', thus metalanguage means literally a language with or after a language, a language that refers after another language - that is, a language about a((n)other) language. Metalanguage is an ...
Susan Hayward, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «METALANGUAGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term metalanguage is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Review: The Allusionist podcast
Zaltzman and her guests don't shy away from the metalanguage needed to delve into the topics and if you're looking for a podcast which isn't ... «Crikey, Jul 15»
2
Lacan v. Foucault
The linguistic model doesn't imply a metalanguage, but to deny the existence of a metalanguage is to affirm that “society never stops realizing ... «First Things, Jun 15»
3
Nkrumah Did Not Force His Views On African Leaders 7
Nkrumah thus provided the political metalanguage for the country's inexperienced leadership, Busia included. On the other hand, what Busia ... «GhanaWeb, Jun 15»
4
IBM's New Customer Service Software Can Feel Your Pain
They include the words typed, their grammatical structure, the context of the conversation, and even metalanguage like pronounced use of ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
5
Unique music event marries classical with cutting-edge rock
As Mansell puts it, the classical musicians "come from an institutional background replete with metalanguage to describe and categorize its ... «Waterloo Record, May 15»
6
Seeing and Knowing: Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge …
Concerned with tracing the history of what she terms at various points a “graphical language,” as well as with developing a metalanguage for ... «Brooklyn Rail, Mar 15»
7
[Rheim Alkadhi, "Disproportion is being built" (2010). Image courtesy …
Informed by Roland Barthes' semiotic theory of the metalanguage of myths, Debord and the Situationists International (1957–72), a group of ... «Jadaliyya, Mar 15»
8
Robots Read Your Emotions, The Next Shopping Frontier
And thanks to the progress achieved in mathematical analysis, artificial intelligence specialists have exploited this metalanguage of facial ... «Worldcrunch, Feb 15»
9
The Postmodern Condition of Knowledge
No one can master all the languages, and in the absence of a metalanguage, legitimation leaves the realm of being based on performativity ... «h+ Magazine, Feb 15»
10
Some lecturers ought to retake undergraduate programmes – Prof …
We have to work out new vocabulary, what we called metalanguage – language with which you will impart knowledge. There is something odd, ... «Daily Sun, Jan 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Metalanguage [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/metalanguage>. Apr 2024 ».
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