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"Angus B. Grieve-Smith" Date: Sun Jan 6, 2002 1:59 am Subject: Re: "Metalinguistics"...what is it? | ||||||||
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On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Charles Butler wrote: > When we talk about "language" we use "metalanguage". This gets to the core of metalinguistics. Metalinguistics is just the ability to use language to talk about language. So Anne-Claude is hoping to be able to train her students to discuss their own language, and others. Perhaps Cecelia and Stefan might be able to tell us ways that SignWriting helped their students think about language? -- -Angus B. Grieve-Smith Linguistics Department University of New Mexico | ||||||||
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