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Metalinguistic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Treating words as words, rather than interacting with their meaning. not-comparable

    "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."

  2. 2
    Pertaining to metalinguistics. not-comparable

Etymology

From meta- + linguistic.

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