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Message

A message is what is transmitted or conveyed in a communicative exchange. The message is one of the six dimensions or components of communication. In each act of communication, one addresser transmits a message to one addressee. A code and channel (or contact) must...

Metalanguage

A metalanguage is a language used to speak about another language. The language spoken about is an object language, while the language that describes, explains, evaluates, etc. the object language is a metalanguage.

Metalingual, Metalinguistic

Metalinguistic is a term often used by Roman Jakobson to identify one of the six communicative functions, namely the function in which communication is directed to a code or a series of codes. As not all communicative exchanges depend on linguistic codes, it may be...

Metanarrative

We call a metanarrative an event or narrative designed to illuminate or even explain another event; an arch over all events or discourse, providing a transparent and extreme perspective. Marxism is sometimes characterized as a theory that offers a metanarrative....



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