Metalanguage: social and ideological perspectives

by Cardiff Roundtable in Sociolinguistics (3rd 1998 Newtown, Powys, Wales), Nikolas Coupland, Dariusz Galasiński, CARDIFF ROUNDTABLE IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS 1

"The ability of language to refer to itself, or its metalinguistic function, is explored in this volume through the study of explicit comments on speakers' own and other people's talk, reported spe…