metadiscourse

noun

Etymology

From meta- + discourse.

  1. derived from discurrō
  2. derived from discursus
  3. derived from discours
  4. inherited from discours
  5. formed as metadiscourse — “meta- + discourse

Definitions

  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…

    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.

    • Meronyms: transition, summative, disjunct

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for metadiscourse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA