Metalanguage Definition

mĕtə-lănggwĭj
meta-language
noun
A language or vocabulary used to describe or analyze language.
American Heritage
A language used to describe or discuss another language.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Metalanguage

Noun

Singular:
metalanguage
Plural:
metalanguages

Origin of Metalanguage

Metalanguage Sentence Examples

  • We are quite sure that teaching students literacy metalanguage helps.

  • In the project I use computational metalanguage to denote and so render these names computationally tractable.

  • Often inaccurately called metalanguage (Hockett called it " reflexivity " ), this is part of our everyday toolkit for effective communication.

  • Top of page Alan Fortune Student metalanguage in collaborative rule formation and pushed output Alan Fortune discussed student metalanguage in collaborative rule formation and pushed output Alan Fortune discussed student metalanguage in text reconstruction.

  • It uses a monadic intermediate language, MIL, based on Moggi's computational metalanguage.

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Words Starting With

MMEMET

Words Ending With

EGEAGE

Unscrambles

metalanguage

Words Starting With M and Ending With E

Starts With M & Ends With EStarts With ME & Ends With EStarts With M & Ends With GE

Word Length

12 Letter Words12 Letter Words Starting With M12 Letter Words Ending With E