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Meaning of metareflexive | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Reflecting on the process of reflection.

Examples

“Examples of metareflexive texts include Derridean deconstruction, Garfinkelian ethnomethodology […] Metareflexive writers are obsessed with methodology to the exclusion of all else […]”
“The answer is perhaps easier in the case of the latter, for one can indeed reread the above dialogue as a metareflexive commentary on the difficulties of understanding that this film brings into play.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

metarelational metarepresentational metarteriolar metasaccharinic metaschematic metascientific

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