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Metalanguage

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. For example, to say that the word "noun" can be used as a noun in a…

Types of expressions, Metaprogramming & In natural language

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Types of metalanguage

In natural language

Types of expressions

Metalinguistic awareness

Role in metaphor

Metaprogramming

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Metalanguage

Nodes72
Edges71
Triples63
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027778
Components1

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Metalanguage

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related to Natural semantic metalanguage · 11
Metalanguage → Andrzej Bogusławski, Anna Wierzbicka, Australia's Griffith University, Australian National University, Cliff Goddard, It, Natural, NSM, Polish, The, Warsaw University
related to Metaprogramming · 10
Metalanguage → Backus, Computers, Examples, John Backus, Lisp, ML, Naur, Peter Naur, The, Yacc
related to Embedded · 8
Metalanguage → An, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter's, English, Escher, Gödel, It, This
related to External links · 6
Metalanguage → Humanist Discussion Group, No, Principia Cybernetica, Problematic Metaphors, Vol, Willard McCarty
related to Metalinguistic awareness · 4
Metalanguage → Metalinguistic, Metalinguistics, Sonia, The
related to Nested · 4
Metalanguage → Each, However, Linnean, The
is a · 3
Metalanguage → construction of one metalanguage to discuss an object language, language formally, language used to describe another language
related to In natural language · 3
Metalanguage → Designating, In, Natural
related to Metavariables · 3
Metalanguage → English, For, The
related to Metatheories and metatheorems · 2
Metalanguage → Statements, Unlike

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language theory formal object nested metalanguages ordered displaystyle oxford use natural metalinguistic awareness languages one grammar used university embedded also

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Metalanguageis alanguage used to describe another language0.90text
Metalanguageis alanguage formally0.90text
Metalanguageis aconstruction of one metalanguage to discuss an object language0.90text
nouninstance ofwhere words0.80text
verbinstance ofwhere words0.80text
or even word describe featuresinstance ofwhere words0.80text
concepts pertaining to the English language itself.OrderedAn ordered metalanguage is analogous to an ordered logicinstance ofwhere words0.80text
concepts pertaining to the English language itselfinstance ofwhere words0.80text
Metalanguagerelated to EmbeddedAn0.60section
Metalanguagerelated to EmbeddedThis0.60section
Metalanguagerelated to EmbeddedDouglas Hofstadter's0.60section
Metalanguagerelated to EmbeddedGödel0.60section

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