metareflexive

adj

metareflexive

adj

Etymology From meta- + reflexive.

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:
Derived terms
metareflexively, metareflexivity

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