metadiscourse

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|philosophy|linguistics|education}} [[discussion|Discussion]], especially involving academic analysis, about a discussion or about [[discourse]].
2. {{lb|en|philosophy|linguistics|education}} Words and phrases, woven into a [[discourse]], whose reference is the external [[framing]] constituted by the reader's [[attention]] and [[purpose]]s for reading, the writer's purposes for writing, the [[narrative]] sequence or document organization, the [[epistemics]] behind the discourse, and so on.

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