metadiscourse
Meanings
noun
- Discussion, especially involving academic analysis, about a discussion or about discourse.
- Words and phrases, woven into a discourse, whose reference is the external framing constituted by the reader's attention and purposes for reading, the writer's purposes for writing, the narrative sequence or document organization, the epistemics behind the discourse, and so on.
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Etymology
From meta- + discourse.
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