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Metalanguage

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Metalanguage"

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Word	Definition
metametalanguagenoun	A language used to define, analyze, or describe a metalanguage.
metalinguistnoun	A linguist whose speciality is metalanguage
macrolinguisticsnoun	The study of language (rather than individual languages).
metalinguisticsnoun	The branch of linguistics that studies language and its relationship to culture and society.
metasemanticsnoun	(linguistics) The part of metalanguage that deals with semantics.
target languagenoun	(applied linguistics) The language a learner is attempting to acquire.
linguisticizationnoun	The process of linguisticizing.
metalexicographynoun	(linguistics, lexicography) The study of lexicography
language ecologynoun	(linguistics) Synonym of linguistic ecology.
metaliteraturenoun	literature that deals with the subject of literature
languenoun	(linguistics) Language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures, and limitations of language.
interpretationnoun	(countable) An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version.
terminologynoun	The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.
glossologynoun	The science of language; linguistics.
linguisticsnoun	The systematic and scholarly study of language.
linguistic terrainnoun	A spatial conception of the character or use of language or languages.
metatalknoun	(linguistics, education) Talk, especially involving academic analysis, about speaking or talking; verbal metadiscourse.
linguistic anthropologynoun	(anthropology, originally and chiefly US) The branch of anthropology that studies language and language use.
discourse analysisnoun	(linguistics) Any of a number of approaches to analyzing written, spoken or signed language use.
morphemicsnoun	(linguistics) The study of morphemes, or of the morphemic structure of a language.