单词 | metalogue |
释义 | metaloguen. 1. A speech delivered between the acts or scenes of a play. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > interlude intermedium1589 jiga1592 intermean1599 garlic1614 entry1631 interlude1660 by-clap1661 divertisement1667 divertissementc1728 interact1750 intermezzo1771 intermede1820 entr'acte1841 metalogue1956 1956 W. H. Auden & C. Kallman Magic Flute 57 [at end of Act I] Metalogue (To be spoken by the singer taking the role of Sarastro.) 1991 New Yorker 7 Oct. 98/3 W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman in the metalogue of their ‘Magic Flute’ translation..wrote: A work that lives two hundred years is tough. 2. (Gregory Bateson's term for) an explanatory dialogue which in form, structure, or manner conveys something about the problem being discussed. Hence: any kind of conversation exhibiting this characteristic. ΚΠ 1969 G. Bateson in T. A. Sebeok & A. Ramsay Approaches to Animal Communication 1 (heading) Metalogue: what is an instinct? 1970 Nature 8 Aug. 637/2 Gregory Bateson's opening ‘metalogue’..sets the right iconoclastic tone which is rarely sustained in later papers. 1987 S. Brand Media Lab i. iii. 45 Our discourse in my office one day became what Gregory Bateson called a ‘metalogue’—a dialogue that is its own example, an explanation and a demonstration simultaneously. 1992 Qualitative Health Res. May 135 (heading) Metalogue on coping with illness: cases from Ecuador. 1993 Organizational Dynamics (Nexis) 22 Sept. 24 Metalogue reveals a conscious, intimate, and subtle relationship between the structure and content of an exchange and its meaning... Information from the process conveys as much meaning as the content of the words exchanged. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1956 |
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