metalinguistic love

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  • adjective Of or relating to a metalanguage or to metalinguistics.

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  • adjective Pertaining to metalinguistics.

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Examples

  • • Meta-linguistic: "What the fuck does 'metalinguistic' mean?"

    Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (1) Hal Duncan 2008

  • • Meta-linguistic: "What the fuck does 'metalinguistic' mean?"

    Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • Finally, the metalinguistic/reflective function of output posits that SL learning is mediated when learners reflect on language produced by themselves or by others.

    P is for Push « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Age – the effects of cognitive and metalinguistic development

    E is for Error « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • It is here that wordplay itself could be seen to do the work of philosophy — where, for instance, to put it directly in terms of Agamben's triangularion of voice, death, and negativity, the ricochets of language can themselves remind us (via oronym and metalinguistic irony) that "never say die" is possible only for those who "never said I."

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • Tyler Burge (1973) finds support for the metalinguistic view in non-argumental occurrences of names, where they often take on a metalinguistic interpretation, as in

    Names Cumming, Sam 2009

  • Indeed, this account is simply a rigidified version of metalinguistic descriptivism.

    Names Cumming, Sam 2009

  • On Sellars 'view, such special copulae and metalinguistic indicators initially arise in response to the need to abstract from our domestic sign designs in order to classify items of different languages on the basis of such functional criteria.

    Wilfrid Sellars Rosenberg, Jay 2009

  • The activities are organized into three sections emphasizing print awareness, metalinguistic, and oral language skills – skills that strongly correlate to reading success.

    Ladders to Literacy: A Preschool Activity Book « Books « Literacy News 2009

  • I found it interesting with my girls as they started to show metalinguistic awareness.

    On a child's view of English DC 2009

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