metadiscourse.
Discussion, especially involving academic analysis, about a discussion or about discourse.
Meaning & usage
Discussion, especially involving academic analysis, about a discussion or about discourse.
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.
Where this word comes from
From meta- + discourse.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.