metaLanguage

In logic and linguistics, a metalanguage is a language used to make statements about other languages (object languages). Formal syntactic models for the description of grammar, e.g. generative grammar, are a type of metalanguage. More broadly, it can refer to any terminology or language used to discuss language itself - a written grammar, for example, or a discussion about language use.

An example would be rendering an utterance in logic e.g. "John smokes" can be written as S(j), where S=smokes and j=john.

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