metalanguage

Japanese: metalanguage
metalanguage

...For example, a red light is understood by translating it into natural language as "Danger!", not the other way around. Only natural language can talk about natural language (a language about language, called metalanguage), and understanding is nothing more than the translation of natural language into natural language. The American applied mathematician CE Shannon said that meaning is an invariant field in translation. ...

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Japanese:

…たとえば,赤信号は〈危険!〉と自然言語に翻訳されて理解され,その逆ではない。自然言語のみが自然言語について語ることができ(言語についての言語,これをメタ言語metalanguageという),了解とは自然言語の,自然言語への翻訳にほかならない。アメリカの応用数学者C.E.シャノンは,意味とは翻訳の際の不変体である,という。…

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