Meaning of epilanguage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A second language used regularly for some purpose or purposes (such as for scholarship and scientific research).
   countable, uncountable
2. A more subconscious, self-imposed, form of metalanguage, determining the form in which a message will be uttered.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“2006 Pascale Hummel, "Epilanguages: Beyond Idioms and Languages," Call⟳ for Participation, 10 May 2006. Somewhere between archiphonemes/archisemes and metalanguages, which could be considered semi-synonyms, the "epilanguages" are the linguistic realities and results generated by the use⟳ of a second language for scholarly and scientific purposes.”

“2009 Claudia Stancati, "‘Mais j’en écrirai en latin’. Latin as an 'Epilanguage' in Descartes’ Philosophy," in Pascale Hummel (ed.), Epilanguages: Beyond Idioms and Languages, Philogicum, Paris, 2009. In a letter to an unknown person, in which he discussed some things dealt with in the fifth meditation, he showed this "epilinguistic" use⟳ of Latin compared to French, which we have⟳ just talked about: ...”

“2012 Australian Research⟳ Council, Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, "Languages of Emotion: Concepts, Codes, Communities," Collaboratory held at the University of Western Australia, 24th and 25th August 2012. Finally, we might consider⟳ the emotional investment of certain groups in the use⟳ of particular languages or 'epilanguages'.”

“2013 Juraj Dolník, "Čeština ako necudzí jazyk v slovenskom prostredí" (Czech as a non-foreign language in the Slovak milieu), Studia Academica Slovaca 42, 2013:127-138. It is argued that the Czech is an epilanguage of the Slovaks, i.e. a concomitant phenomenon of their mother tongue.”

“Gombert begins the volume by presenting evidence that in addition to explicit teaching of basic decoding skills, metalinguistic knowledge or epilanguage that children bring⟳ into reading is also important.”

“2006 Che Kan Leong, "Making explicit children’s implicit epilanguage in learning to read⟳ Chinese," in P. Li, H.T. Li, E. Bates & O.J.L. Tzeng (eds.), The Handbook of East Asian psychology, pp. 70-80. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press⟳. In making explicit their implicit knowledge of epilanguage within a developmental context, children continually restructure their internal representation of language in order⟳ to integrate isolated procedures into a system (Karmiloff-Smith, 1986).”

“Critical expressions may therefore be statements or entrenched beliefs, or even paradigms, which belong⟳ to the epilanguage or background knowledge of sciences.”

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