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Najma Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

What do Complex Metalanguage and Terminological Looseness mean?!

Hello everybody,

I'd like to know the meaning of the following two phrases.

"The text uses complex metalanguage."

"The text suffers from terminological looseness."

Would you please explain them to me?

Thank you in advance.
  

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These are very sophisticated questions. You're going to have to tell US! [:^)]
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Hi,

I'd like to know the meaning of the following two phrases.

"The text uses complex metalanguage." Metalanguage is the specialized language and especially vocabulary that is used to describe/analyze everyday language. That's why some texts that are written by linguistics scholars are not easily understood by non-l
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Thank you very much, Clive.

Your explanation is very clear and informative.
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Thank you very much, Clive.

Your expalnation is very clear and informative.

All the best,

Najma
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