36.3290, Books: Metalanguage and Identity: Evans and Herat (2025)

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Subject: 36.3290, Books: Metalanguage and Identity: Evans and Herat (2025)

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Date: 28-Oct-2025
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Metalanguage and Identity: Evans and Herat (2025)


Title: Metalanguage and Identity
Subtitle: From Narration to Reflection
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/metalanguage-and-identity-9781350497856/

Author(s): David Evans and Manel Herat

Hardback, ISBN: 9781350497856, Price: £95.00

Abstract:

How does language attain to rear view reflection and then timeless
analysis? How does language garner its conceptualisation in order to
do this?
This book is an exploration of the process in which everyday narrative
language can become reflective and then analytical. Narrative language
is viewed as a way of 'becoming' within the flow of time and therefore
life.
Evans and Herat show that there are levels in language that correspond
with conceptual structures existing in the mind and in wider society,
which shape the formation of a metalanguage. They explore how metaphor
is an important creative tool in raising language to a more conceptual
level in the constitution of a metalanguage. The book considers the
development of different strands of metalanguage, for example,
mind-based logic, physically based metaphor and universal grammar, to
provide a fuller account of language and identity by challenging
sweeping existential accounts of language.
By studying the formation and application of metalanguage, the authors
show it can help develop a more questioning, dialogic critical
pedagogy in education to accustom students to develop critical
awareness.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     General Linguistics




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