metalanguage

Any language that one uses to talk about a formal system is called a metalanguage.

The reason they look trivial is that the object language and the metalanguage are both English.

The language being used to talk about an object language is called a metalanguage.

Thus, no external system (metalanguage) is required to define the rules of a language.

The first quote seems to assert that the canons are part of the metalanguage.

The development of a programming language involves the use of a metalanguage.

The first case belongs to the metalanguage whereas the second is more likely to belong to the object language.

The ability of a programming language to be its own metalanguage is called reflection or reflexivity.

There are several entities commonly expressed in a metalanguage.

It seems to be an entirely new metalanguage!

The most common metalanguage to name this concept is nominalization.

I also have my doubts about how ordinary users of this dictionary will cope with its metalanguage.

They can instead be described in the metalanguage, as equivalence classes of logical formulas.

Natural language demonstrably contains its own metalanguage, in which we talk about language itself.

OWL is a metalanguage, including a basic grammar, but without a dictionary.

A widespread general term in computer-speak, but refined to a way of life (if not a metalanguage) at Microsoft.

Transliteration, however, creates a nonsensical metalanguage of its own.

It is called that because that language is the object under discussion using the metalanguage.

In describing the transformation rules, we may introduce a metalanguage symbol .

The language in which the metaprogram is written is called the metalanguage.

A metatheorem is a true statement about a formal system expressed in a metalanguage.

Tarski demanded that the object language was contained in the metalanguage.

They are a metalanguage, but one which exists in everyday language and is as useful for the foreign student as the native speaker.

Occasionally the girl would lapse into metalanguage: shards of song, a few clumsy dance steps.

Computer languages are object languages of the metalanguage in which their specification is written.