metalanguage

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Any language or vocabulary of terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process.

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.

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Any similar language used to define a programming language

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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 i

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