Metalanguage (1943).
Standard distinction, applied to linguistics by Danish linguist Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965).
Also discussed by Roman Jakobson (1896-1982).
Language about language: metalanguage is a system of notation, descriptive terms, and so on, for an ‘object language’. Metalanguage may be related to natural language – terms like ‘passive’, ‘auxiliary’ -or an abstract notation as in symbolic logic.
Also see: GLOSSEMATICS, POETIC PRINCIPLE
Source:
J Lyons, Semantics (Cambridge, 1977)
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
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- 2.1 Learn Hindi Free
- 2.2 Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity
- 2.3 The Social Set : Metalanguage Festival Vol. 1
- 2.4 Aloha
- 2.5 Learn Hebrew Free
- 2.6 Ten Lectures on Natural Semantic MetaLanguage (Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics)
- 2.7 Truth (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy Book 4)
- 2.8 The Science Set : Metalanguage Festival Vol. 2
- 2.9 Metalanguage (Language, Power, and Social Process)
- 2.10 Compassion
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