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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.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of metalinguistics1

First recorded in 1945–50; meta- + linguistics

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