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metareflexive

adj

Etymology

From meta- + reflexive.

  1. derived from reflexus
  2. borrowed from reflexīvus
  3. prefixed as metareflexive — “meta + reflexive”

Definitions

  1. Reflecting on the process of reflection.

    • Examples of metareflexive texts include Derridean deconstruction, Garfinkelian ethnomethodology […] Metareflexive writers are obsessed with methodology to the exclusion of all else […]
    • The answer is perhaps easier in the case of the latter, for one can indeed reread the above dialogue as a metareflexive commentary on the difficulties of understanding that this film brings into play.

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