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Definitions
Treating words as words, rather than interacting with their meaning.
Word origin
From meta- + linguistic.
Used in a sentence
“Mary is still one of the most popular girl's names. This represents a metalinguistic use of Mary: the case where we cite a linguistic expression in order to say something about it qua linguistic expression.”
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