metalinguistic awareness
Logic and Linguistics
noun
An awareness, especially when learning a language, that the rules of that language (grammatical, phonological, pragmatic, etc.) are an arbitrary linguistic code independent of meaning.
Origin
1970s.
- take one's seat
- take one's time
- take (or bear) the consequences
- take (or bring) someone down a peg or two
- take (or catch) someone's fancy
- take (or draw) someone aside
- take (or draw) someone to/on one side
- take (or get) a pounding
- take (or get) one's lumps
- take (or have) a punt at
- take (or have) pity
- take (or lift) the lid off (or lift the lid on)
- take (or pick) up the slack
- take (or plead) the Fifth
- take (or plead) the Fifth Amendment
- takeout
- take-out double
- take over
- takeover
- takeover bid
- takeover bidder
- take part
- take place
- take pleasure in
- taker