ARABIC-L: LING: Metafiction Response

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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Date: 12 May 1999
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Metafiction Response

	Arabic literary criticism uses variously for "metafiction":

	(a)   qiSSah @ani 'l-qiSSAh (lit. fiction about fiction);
	(b)   miitaqiSSah (prefix meta + qiSSah).

	Almost the same is done with "metalanguage":

	(a)  lughah taSifu 'l-lughah (language describing language);
	(b)  lughah waraa' 'l-lughah (language beyond language);
	(c)  miitalughah (meta + lughah).
						M. Deeb

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Department of Comparative Literature,
University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada T6G 2E6

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