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metadiscourses

metadiscourses is the plural of metadiscourse.

Meaning of metadiscourse

Noun

metadiscourse (countable and uncountable, plural metadiscourses)

  1. Discussion, especially involving academic analysis, about a discussion or about discourse.
  2. Words and phrases, woven into a discourse, whose reference is the external framing constituted by the reader's attention and purposes for reading, the writer's purposes for writing, the narrative sequence or document organization, the epistemics behind the discourse, and so on.
    • Meronyms: transition, summative, disjunct

Questions about metadiscourses

What is metadiscourses the plural of?
Metadiscourses is the plural of metadiscourse.

Words near metadiscourses in the dictionary

  1. metadiscipline
  2. metadisciplines
  3. metadiscoidal
  4. metadiscoursal
  5. metadiscourse
  6. metadiscourses
  7. metadiscursive
  8. metadiscussion
  9. metadiscussions
  10. metadivine
  11. metadocument

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metadiscourses (page history and authors); metadiscourse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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