Abstract The metalinguistic approach to conceptual engineering construes disputes between (what I shall call) linguistic reformers and conservatives as disagreements on how best use particular expressions. As the present paper argues, this has various merits. However, it was recently criticised in Cappelen’s seminal Fixing Language (2018). Cappelen raises an important objection against picture....

Abstract This paper raises a new form of speaker error objection to the analysis disputes as metalinguistic negotiations in cases which disputants reject that analysis. It focuses on an obvious but underexplored error: speakers’ misattribution contents both others and themselves. argues analyses posit this type are uncharitable three different ways: first, by portraying speakers mistaken interp...

This study examined the role of error-type and working memory (WM) in effectiveness direct-metalinguistic indirect written corrective feedback (WCF) on self error-correction first-language writing. Fifty-one French first-year psychology students volunteered to participate experiment. They carried out a task after receiving WCF typographical, orthographic, grammatical, semantic errors. Results i...

Abstract I argue against the view that metalinguistic usage is a form of conversational implicature. That view, suggested by Thomasson (Anal Philos 57(4):1-28, 2016) and Belleri (Philos Stud 174(9):2211–2226, 2017), has been most recently fleshed out Mankowitz (Synthese 199:5603–5622, 2021). provide two types criticism to implicature view. From an empirical point differs in key respects from st...

abstract the extent to which teachers’ written corrective feedback (wcf) is conducive to esl learners’ improvement has been discussed since truscott’s claim in 1996. the mentioned debate continues because there has been lots of contrastive research studies with different results. this paper presents the results of a 2-month study of the effectiveness of wcf to 65 low intermediate iranian learne...

This paper presents the application of automatic analysis (of statistical and symbolic nature) for the detection and processing of metalanguage in highly technical texts from various domains. The selective metalinguistic information extraction performed by the MOP system allows compilation of non-conventional lexicons to aid domain-restricted NLP.