Search results
- Dictionarymet·a·lan·guage/ˈmedəˌlaNGɡwij/
noun
- 1. a form of language or set of terms used for the description or analysis of another language.
Powered by Oxford Dictionaries
noun
Powered by Oxford Dictionaries
Linguistics term; language or symbols used when language itself is being discussed or examined.
In logic and linguistics, a metalanguage is a language used to describe another language, often called the object language. Expressions in a metalanguage are often distinguished from those in the object language by the use of italics, quotation marks, or writing on a separate line. The structure of sentences and phrases in a metalanguage can be described by a metasyntax. For example, to say that t... Wikipedia