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Object language
A language or a part of a language that is used to speak about objects but not about sentences or propositions.
📖 Definitions of "Object language"
noun
- 1
A language or a part of a language that is used to speak about objects but not about sentences or propositions.
- 2
The language of the headwords in a dictionary (in a French-to-English translation dictionary, French is the object language)
- 3
Target language; the language of the object code, the output of a compiler (not necessarily executable machine code)
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Object language"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| target languagenoun | (applied linguistics) The language a learner is attempting to acquire. |
| ordinary language philosophynoun | A philosophical methodology that sees traditional philosophical problems as rooted in misunderstandings resulting from philosophers distorting or forgetting how words are ordinarily used to convey meaning in non-philosophical contexts. |
| language gamenoun | A game that is based on players’ knowledge of a language or languages, such as fictionary, hangman. etc. |
| illocutionnoun | (linguistics) The aim of a speaker in making an utterance as opposed to the meaning of the terms used. |
| languenoun | (linguistics) Language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures, and limitations of language. |
| private language problemnoun | (philosophy) The problem, considered by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and other philosophers, of whether it is possible for a private language to exist. |
| microlinguisticsnoun | A branch of linguistics that concerns itself with the study of language systems in the abstract, without regard to the meaning of expressions. |
| lexical semanticsnoun | (linguistics) The study of how the words of a language denote either things in the real world or concepts. |
| pragmalinguisticsnoun | The study of the use of illocution in a language. |
| sublineationnoun | A line drawn underneath text; an underline. |
| objectivismnoun | (sometimes capitalized) The specific objectivist philosophy created by novelist Ayn Rand, endorsing logical reasoning and self-interest. |
| sublanguagenoun | (linguistics) A language restricted to a specific context, such as a particular subject area. |
| languagenoun | (countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication. |
| metalanguagenoun | (linguistics, translation studies, critical theory) Any language or vocabulary of terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process. |
| armchair linguisticsnoun | (linguistics, informal) Any linguistic enterprise employing introspection rather than empirical methods, such as elicitation. |
| nominalismnoun | (philosophy) A doctrine that universals do not have an existence except as names for classes of concrete objects. |
| linguistic anthropologynoun | (anthropology, originally and chiefly US) The branch of anthropology that studies language and language use. |
| language organnoun | (Chomskyan linguistics) The innate human mental capacity to learn language. |
| objectismnoun | An approach to poetry in which the poet is regarded as just one object among the other objects in existence, rather than a subject through which they are mediated. |
| philologynoun | (especially US) The humanistic study of texts and their languages, especially ancient or classical languages. |
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