Publications
Publication details [#41950]
Mertz, Elisabeth. 2002. Metalinguistic awareness. In Östman, Jan-Ola, Jef Verschueren, Jan Blommaert and Chris Bulcaen, eds. Handbook of Pragmatics. 2000 Installment. John Benjamins. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Annotation
In recent years, an exciting new approach to the study of metalanguage — focused upon the issue of metalinguistic awareness — has emerged from empirical research on language pragmatics and metapragmatics. This scholarship is located in relation to work on metalanguage from a number of other traditions, such as philosophy, linguistics, linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and from cognitive and developmental approaches.