#redirect {{Top}}métalangage{{Bottom}} =====Linguistic Definition====="[[MetaMetalanguage]]" is the technical [[linguistic]] 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> =====Jacques Lacan==========Early Work=====[[Lacan]]'s first reference to [[metalanguage]] comes in 1956, when he echoes [[Jakobson]]'s view on the metalingual function of all [[language]]: <blockquote>"All [[language]] implies a [[metalanguage]], its already a [[metalanguage]] of its own [[register]]."<ref>{{S3}} p. 226</ref></blockquote> =====Later Work=====A few years later, in 1960, he says precisely the opposite, arguing that "no [[metalanguage]] can be spoken."<ref>{{E}} p.311</ref> =====No "Outside" 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." =====Metalanguage 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]]. =====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 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. =====Transference=====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." ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Discourse]]* [[Interpretation]]||* [[Language]]* [[Linguistics]]||* [[Other]]* [[Real]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Transference]]{{Also}} ==References==<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-languagesmall"><references/></div> {{OK}}[[Category:Linguistics]][[Category:Language]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:OK]] __NOTOC__
