Meaning of metalinguistic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Treating words as words, rather than interacting with their meaning.
   not-comparable
2. Pertaining to metalinguistics.
   not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“Mary is still one of the most popular girl's names. This represents a metalinguistic use of Mary: the case where we cite a linguistic expression in order to say something about it qua linguistic expression.”

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