Metalanguage
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See: Meta, Formal Language, Metasyntax.
References
2009
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalanguage
- In logic and linguistics, a metalanguage is a language used to make statements about statements in another language which is called the object language. It can refer to any terminology or language used to discuss language itself — a written grammar, for example, or a discussion about language use. Very often expressions in a metalanguage are distinguished from those in an object language by the use of italics, quotes or being set apart on a line by themselves.