metalinguistics

Metalinguistics is the branch of linguistics that studies language and its relationship to other cultural behaviors.

Another stream of evidence is metalinguistics and the question of mutual intelligibility.

Metalinguistics can be classified as the ability to consciously reflect on the nature of language, by using the following skills:

Metalinguistics: Ability to discuss language itself.

Metalinguistics, actually.

Her metalinguistics were consistently flirtatious.

(In its studies of humans, it had called up from the computer a file on metalinguistics and paralanguage.)

Metalinguistics awareness was used as a construct in research extensively in the mid 1980's and early 1990s.

Metalinguistics investigates and reveals a hidden (connotative) level of meaning whose coherence is independent of the first (denotative) level.

In Logical Positivism, Atheism, Rationalism, Empiricism, Epistemology, General Semantics, Metalinguistics and related disciplines, there is a suggestion that communicated symbols should represent observable truths.

Central to Whorf's inquiries was the approach later described as metalinguistics by G. L. Trager, who in 1950 published four of Whorf's essays as "Four articles on Metalinguistics".

Whorf's endeavors have since been taken up in the development of the study of metalinguistics and metalinguistic awareness, first by Michael Silverstein who published a radical and influential rereading of Whorf in 1979 and subsequently in the field of linguistic anthropology.

Jacob L. Mey in his book Trends in Linguistics describes Mikhail Bakhtin's interpretation of metalinguistics as "encompassing the life history of a speech community, with an orientation toward a study of large events in the speech life of people and embody changes in various cultures and ages."