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metalanguage

Any language which describes, in technical terms, the properties of another language. Thus linguistics is a scientific language about language.
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of New England) presents this book for advanced students and professionals in linguistics describing the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) framework for investigating semantic primes cross-linguistically, and detailing a number of metalanguage studies and problems therein.
Cross-linguistic semantics by Reference & Research Book News
Wierzbicka rightly stresses the value of 'a coherent theoretical framework' and 'hard linguistic evidence'; in this context, her previous work on natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) provides the core principles of the former and the evidential basis for the latter.
English: Meaning and Culture by Mugglestone, Lynda / Yearbook of English Studies
We almost automatically expect artists in hot zones to produce works, interventions, and concepts about protest, struggle, and shock, while other societies are allowed digressions into language, metalanguage, and irony.
Regina Jose Galindo: Prometeogallery by Meneguzzo, Marco / Artforum International
 
 
 
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