metalinguistics

[ met-uh-ling-gwis-tiks ]

noun(used with a singular verb)
  1. the study of the relation between languages and the other cultural systems they refer to.

Origin of metalinguistics

1
First recorded in 1945–50; meta- + linguistics

Words Nearby metalinguistics

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