metalanguage Noun
(linguistics, translation studies, critical theory) Any language or vocabulary of specialized terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process.
* 2005 , Michael Cronin, Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for translation and interpreting , edited by Martha Tennent, Benjamins Translation Library, p. 255:
- In order to talk or theorise about phenomena, one inevitably uses a language that is in effect a metalanguage , a special instance of language that allows the theorist to stand back and describe what is happening.
(computing) Any similar language used to define a programming language.
See also
* object language
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Etymology 1
(etyl) language, from (etyl) language, from .
Noun
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(lb) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
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* 1867', ''Report on the Systems of Deaf-Mute Instruction pursued in Europe'', quoted in '''1983 in ''History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907 (ISBN 0913580856), page 240:
- Hence the natural language' of the mute is, in schools of this class, suppressed as soon and as far as possible, and its existence as a ' language , capable of being made the reliable and precise vehicle for the widest range of thought, is ignored.
* {{quote-book, page=50, year=1900, author=(w)
, title= The History of the Caliph Vathek
, passage=No language could express his rage and despair.}}
* 2000 , Geary Hobson, The Last of the Ofos (ISBN 0816519595), page 113:
- Mr. Darko, generally acknowledged to be the last surviving member of the Ofo Tribe, was also the last remaining speaker of the tribe's language .
(lb) The ability to communicate using words.
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(lb) The vocabulary and usage of a particular specialist field.
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- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language , he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way.
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* 2001 , Eugene C. Kennedy, ?Sara C. Charles, On Becoming a Counselor (ISBN 0824519132):
- A tale about themselves [is] told by people with help from the universal languages of their eyes, their hands, and even their shirting feet.
A body of sounds, signs and signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
A computer language; a machine language.
* 2015 , Kent D. Lee, Foundations of Programming Languages (ISBN 3319133144), page 94:
- In fact pointers are called references in these languages' to distinguish them from pointers in ' languages like C and C++.
(lb) Manner of expression.
* (rfdate) Cowper:
- Their language simple, as their manners meek,
(lb) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
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(lb) Profanity.
*{{quote-book, page=500, year=1978, author=James Carroll
, title= Mortal Friends , isbn=0440157897
, passage="Where the hell is Horace?" ΒΆ "There he is. He's coming. You shouldn't use language ."}}
Synonyms
* (form of communication) tongue, speech (spoken language)
* (vocabulary of a particular field) lingo (colloquial), jargon, terminology, phraseology, parlance
* (computer language) computer language, programming language, machine language
* (particular words used) phrasing, wording, terminology
Derived terms
* artificial language
* auxiliary language
* bad language
* body language
* computing language
* constructed language
* endangered language
* extinct language
* foreign language
* formal language
* foul language
* international language
* language barrier
* language code
* language cop
* language death
* language extinction
* language family
* language lab, language laboratory
* language model
* language of flowers
* language planning
* language police
* language pollution
* language processing
* language school
* language shift
* language technology
* language transfer
* languaging
* machine language
* mathematical language
* mind one's language
* natural language
* pattern language
* programming language
* private language
* secular language
* sign language
* speak someone's language
* standard language
* vehicular language
* vernacular language
Related terms
* langue
* lingual
* linguine
* linguistics
* tonguage
Verb
To communicate by language; to express in language.
* (rfdate) Fuller:
- Others were languaged in such doubtful expressions that they have a double sense.
See also
* lexis, term, word
* bilingual
* linguistics
* multilingual
* trilingual
Etymology 2
Alteration of (m).
Noun
( en noun)
A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
* 1896 , William Horatio Clarke, The Organist's Retrospect , page 79:
- A flue-pipe is one in which the air passes through the throat, or flue, which is the narrow, longitudinal aperture between the lower lip and the tongue, or language'.
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