| 释义 |
object language
[object n. + language n.]
1. A language described or analysed in terms of another language (known as the metalanguage).
1935Mind XLIV. 501 Formal syntax requires a language of which it is the syntax. This language is called the ‘object-language’ (Objektsprache) in distinction from the syntax language. 1937A. Smeaton tr. Carnap's Logical Syntax of Lang. 4 We are concerned with two languages: in the first place with the language which is the object of our investigation—we shall call this the object-language—and, secondly, with the language in which we speak about the syntactical forms of the object-language. 1946C. Morris Signs, Lang. & Behavior 179 So if we talked about French in English, French would be the object language and English the metalanguage. 1947A. J. Ayer Thinking & Meaning 26, I am using English in a twofold aspect, as an object-language and as a meta-language in which I speak about the object-language. 1947R. Carnap Meaning & Necessity i. 4 In order to speak about any object language..we need a metalanguage. 1965B. Mates Elem. Logic ii. 36 In the case of a Greek grammar written in English, Greek is the object-language and English is the metalanguage. 1977J. Lyons Semantics I. i. 10 We may say that the language being described is the object-language and the language which is used to make the descriptive statements is the metalanguage.
2. In the theories of Bertrand Russell: a language consisting only of words having meaning in isolation.
1940B. Russell Inquiry into Meaning & Truth iv. 63 There must..be a language of lowest type... I shall call this sometimes the ‘object-language’, sometimes the ‘primary language’. 1954E. Branth tr. H. Spang-Hanssen's Recent Theories Nature of Lang. Sign in Travaux du Cercle Ling. de Copenhague IX. 76 Object-words form an object-language, which is the primary language in a language hierarchy. 1963J. Lyons Structural Semantics iv. 54, I do not accept..that there is a basic ‘object-language’, the elements of which are learnt in isolation and to which the rest of the vocabulary can be reduced.
3. Computers. A language into which a program is translated by an assembler or compiler. Cf. object program (object n. 10).
1961Leeds & Weinberg Computer Programming Fund. ii. 49 Just as in language translation, a type of dictionary is employed in translating from the source language to the object language. 1970P. M. Sherman Techniques Computer Programming vi. 109 The result of the translation process is an object program in an object language or machine language. |