Abstract

GONZALEZ DE REQUENA-FARRE, Juan Antonio. Metalanguage and Grammar of Some Everyday Propositions about Truth in Spanish. Folios [online]. 2018, n.48, pp.57-71. ISSN 0123-4870.

This paper seeks to exemplify the metalinguistic, metadiscursive and metacommunicative performances of everyday language through a grammatical description of some propositions about truth in Spanish. To that end, we carry out a comparative study of some everyday expressions like "The truth is that p", "It is true that p", or "This/That is true"; more specifically, we analyze the types of relational clause, the rhetorical movements, the content of the propositions, the grammatical realization of the term truth, and the scope of possible denial. By showing that natural language has semiotic resources or options of meaning to reflect about itself, this paper questions the desire to have formalized higher-order metalanguages.

Keywords : metalanguage; metacommunication; metadiscourse; propositions about truth.

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