metadiscourse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Discussion, especially involving academic analysis, about a discussion or about discourse.
  2. 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.

Word forms

metadiscourse metadiscourses

Etymology

From meta- + discourse.

Related words

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