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=====Linguistic Definition=====
=====Roman Jakobson=====
[[Roman Jakobson]] includes the metalingual function in his list of the functions of [[language]].<ref>[[Roman Jakobson|Jakobson, Roman]]. (1960) "Linguistics and poetics," in ''Selected Writings'', vol. II, ''Poetry of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry'', The Hague: Mouton, 1981[1960]., p.25</ref>
=====Jacques Lacan=====
This is reminiscent of [[Heidegger]]'s views on the impossibility of exiting "the house of language."
=====UnsortedMetalanguage Does Not Exist=====[[Lacan]] rejects the very possibility of a [[metalanguage|metalinguistic dimension]], denies the [[existence]] of any [[metalanguage]].
[[Lacan]] follows [[Heidegger]]'s view of [[language]] as a "house of being" of which it is impossible to step [[outside]].
This also appears similar to the [[structuralism|structuralist]] theme of ''il n'y a rien hors du texte'' ("there is nothing outside the text"), but it is not the same; [[Lacan]] does not deny that there is a beyond of [[language]] (this beyond is the [[real]]), but he does argue that this beyond is not of a kind that could finally anchor [[signification|meaning]].
There is, in other words, no transcendental [[signified]], no way that [[language]] could "tell the truth about truth."<ref>{{Ec}} p.867-8</ref>
=====No Other of the Other=====
The same point is also expressed in the phrase:
<blockquote>"There is no Other of the Other."<ref>{{E}} p.311</ref></blockquote>
If the [[Other]] is the guarantee of the coherence of the [[subject]]'s [[discourse]], then the falsity of this guarantee is revealed by the fact that the guarantor himself lacks such a guarantee.
==See Also==
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* [[Discourse]]
* [[Interpretation]]
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* [[Language]]
* [[Linguistics]]
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* [[Other]]
* [[Real]]
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* [[Subject]]
* [[Transference]]
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==References==
