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=====Linguistic Definition====="[[Metalanguage]]" is the technical term in [[linguisticslinguistic]] term for any [[form ]] of [[language]] which is used to describe or analyze the properties of [[another]] [[language]].

=====Roman Jakobson=====[[Roman Jakobson]] includes the metalingual function in his [[list ]] of the functions of [[language]].<ref>[[Roman Jakobson|Jakobson, Roman]]. "Linguistics and poetics," in ''Selected Writings'', vol. II, ''[[Poetry]] of Grammar and Grammar of Poetry'', The [[Hague]]: Mouton, 1981 [1960:]., p. 25</ref>

((More generally, any descriptive [[discourse]] such as [[literary criticism]] can be said to function as a [[metalanguage]].)) =====Jacques Lacan==========Early Work=====

<blockquote>"All [[language]] implies a [[metalanguage]], its already a [[metalanguage]] of its own [[register]]."<ref>{{S3}} p. 226</ref></blockquote> In 1956 [[Jacques Lacan]] reaffirms [[Jakobson]]'s view on the metalingual function of all [[language]]: "all [[language]] implies a [[metalanguage]], its already a [[metalanguage]] of its own register."<ref>{{S3}} p. 226</ref> 

However, in 1960, [[Lacan]] states the opposite, arguing that =====No "no [[metalanguage]] can be spoken.Outside"<ref>{{E}} p.311</ref>of Language=====What [[Lacan]] appears to mean by this remark is that, since every attempt to fix the [[signification|meaning ]] of [[language ]] must be done in [[language]], there can be no escape from [[language]], no '"outside'".

This is reminiscent of [[Heidegger]]'s views on the [[impossibility ]] of exiting "the house of language."

This also appears similar to the structuralist theme of ''il n'y a rien hors du texte'' ('there is nothing outside the text'), but it is not the same; =====Metalanguage Does Not Exist=====[[Lacan]] does not deny that there is rejects the very possibility of a beyond of [[languagemetalanguage|metalinguistic dimension]] (this beyond is , denies the [[realexistence]]), but he does argue that this beyond is not of a kind that could finally anchor meaningany [[metalanguage]].

There is, in other words, no transcendental signified, no way that [[Lacan]] follows [[Heidegger]]'s view of [[language could ]] as a "tell the truth about truth.house of [[being]]"<ref>{{Ec}} pof which it is [[impossible]] to step [[outside]].867-8</ref>

The same point =====Meaning Beyond Language=====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 also expressed in not the phrasesame; "[[Lacan]] does not deny that there is no Other a beyond of [[language]] (this beyond is the Other."<ref>{{E}} p[[real]]), but he does argue that this beyond is not of a kind that could finally anchor [[signification|meaning]].311</ref>

If the Otheer There is the guarantee of the coherence of the subject's discourse, then the falsity of this guarantee is revealed by the fact in other [[words]], no [[transcendental]] [[signified]], no way that [[language]] could "tell the guarantor himself lacks such a guarantee[[truth]] [[about]] truth."<ref>{{Ec}} p.867-8</ref>

In a clinical context, this means that there is no metalanguage =====No Other of the transference, no Other=====The same point outside is also expressed in the transference from which it could be finally interpreted and "liquidated."phrase:

[[Lacan]] rejects the very possibility of a 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]].<ref>1960</ref> [[Lacan]] does not deny that there is a beyond of [[language]], but he does argue that this beyond is not of a kind that could finally anchor [[meaning]].  There is no transcendental [[signified]], no way that [[language]] could "tell the [[truth]] about [[truth]]."<ref>{{Ec}} p. 867-8</ref> ==Other of the Other==The same point is also expressed in the phrase, "there is no Other of the Other."<ref>{{E}} p.311</ref> 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 [[lack]]s such a [[guarantee]].  =Transference===Psychoanalytic Treatment==In a [[clinical]] context, this means that there is no [[metalanguage]] of the [[transference]], no point [[outside]] the [[transference]] from which it could be finally [[interpretation|interpreted]] and '"liquidated'."

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