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metareflexive en · ADJ

Etymology

From meta- + reflexive.

Meanings

1. Reflecting on the process of reflection.
   • Examples of metareflexive texts include Derridean deconstruction, Garfinkelian ethnomethodology […] Metareflexive writers are obsessed with methodology to the exclusion of all else […] 1989, Malcolm Ashmore, The Reflexive Thesis, page 60:
   • 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. 2013, Greg Hainge, Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise, page 194:

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Deriveds

metareflexively · metareflexivity