metareflexive

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

meta- +‎ reflexive

Adjective[edit]

metareflexive (comparative more metareflexive, superlative most metareflexive)

  1. Reflecting on the process of reflection.
    • 1989, Malcolm Ashmore, The Reflexive Thesis, page 60:
      Examples of metareflexive texts include Derridean deconstruction, Garfinkelian ethnomethodology [] Metareflexive writers are obsessed with methodology to the exclusion of all else []
    • 2013, Greg Hainge, Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise, page 194:
      The answer is perhaps easier in the case of the latter, for one can indeed reread the above dialogue as a metareflexive commentary on the difficulties of understanding that this film brings into play.

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