Metalinguistic Development

• Author(s): Jean Emile Gombert,
• Publisher: Harvester Wheatsheaf
• Pages: 238
• ISBN_10: 0745011349
  ISBN_13: 9780745011349
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics / Language Acquisition ,

Description:... Investigates definitions of metalinguistics and tracks its development as a language whose function is to describe a language. The author defends the idea that the reflexive use of language does not necessarily imply that the cognitive activity of the subject is linguistic in character.