Fifty Years Ago in Etc. (Retrospect).

From: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics | Date: September 22, 2001 | Copyright information

METALINGUISTICS

The term "metalinguistics" was devised to cover aspects of linguistic science dealing with the relation of linguistic behavior (language) to other human behavior.

It presupposes the thorough formal analysis of a language -- the microlinguistic analysis of its structure. Metalinguistics is dependent upon the existence of this and similarly thorough analyses of such phases of human behavior as patterning in movements, material objects and their ...

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