metalanguage in English
You begin to worry that the metalanguage we're using just isn't up to the job, and to think that maybe it's time to call in the philosophers, as Mark Liberman suggests.
Use "metalanguage" in a sentence
1. Based on the latter metalanguage theory, this study is to extract defining metalanguage system in modern Chinese by means of statistics and limited research.
2. The development of a programming language involves the use of a metalanguage.
3. Formal syntactic models for the description of grammar, eg generative grammar, are a type of metalanguage.
4. Metalanguage : certain kinds of linguistic signs or terms for the analysis and description of particular studies.
5. To conclude, the function of discourse markers consists in three aspects: discourse constraint, discourse organization and metalanguage .
6. However, a nested metalanguage differs from an ordered one, in that each level includes the one below.
7. Finally, the author tried to grade the defining metalanguage and construct it in different semantic groups and hierarchies.
8. The use of risk metalanguage should ensure that risk identification actually identifies risks, distinct from causes or effects.
9. The Bivalence in the metalanguage is then ‘forced through’ to the object language via Convention T with disastrous consequences
10. There are 2000 entries based on the editors'experience on teaching and lexicography in LDCE, Wwhich stands for the work on defining metalanguage in English.
11. The present article analyses and discusses the concepts of semantic prime and cultural script in Natural Semantic Metalanguage Theory developed by Wierzbicka.
12. Here, we have the same paradox as that of a natural language which is at the same time the last, the highest metalanguage .
13. After that, the intersection of middle and high frequency defining vocabulary in MCD and the limited vocabulary was taken as "core vocabulary" of defining metalanguage .
14. Based on the core vocabulary, the final defining metalanguage (nearly 3000 words) of modern Chinese was determined by supplementing, adjusting, testing, optimizing and other technical means.
15. Cultivation of emotions for religion through the language of myth is decided by the "metalanguage" with a belief that everything in the world has a nimbus.
16. 24 Cultivation of emotions for religion through the language of myth is decided by the "metalanguage" with a belief that everything in the world has a nimbus.
17. The variables to which the obligatory participants in the scene correspond in the dictionary definitions or in the metalanguage definitions is called the semantic valence of the predicate.