different between metalanguage vs jargon

English

Etymology

meta- +? language

Pronunciation

Noun

metalanguage (countable and uncountable, plural metalanguages)

1. (linguistics, translation studies, critical theory) Any language or vocabulary of specialized terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process
   • 2005, Michael Cronin, Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for translation and interpreting, edited by Martha Tennent, Benjamins Translation Library, p. 255:

     In order to talk or theorise about phenomena, one inevitably uses a language that is in effect a metalanguage, a special instance of language that allows the theorist to stand back and describe what is happening.

2. (computing) Any similar language used to define a programming language

Related terms

• metalingual metalinguist

Translations

See also

• object language
• epilanguage

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???.??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d???.??n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n
• Hyphenation: jar?gon

Etymology 1

From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).

Noun

jargon (countable and uncountable, plural jargons)

1. (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
2. (countable) A language characteristic of a particular group.
3. (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.

Synonyms

• (language characteristic of a group): argot, cant, intalk
• vernacular

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

jargon (third-person singular simple present jargons, present participle jargoning, simple past and past participle jargoned)

1. To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.

Etymology 2

Noun

jargon (plural jargons)

1. Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”)

Further reading

• Jargon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jargon in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• "jargon" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 174.

Dutch

Etymology

From Old French jargon (“chatter, talk, language”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?r???n/
• Hyphenation: jar?gon

Noun

jargon n (plural jargons, diminutive jargonnetje n)

1. A jargon, specialised language

Finnish

(index ja)

Etymology

Borrowed from English jargon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?r?on/, [?j?r?o?n]
• Rhymes: -?r?on
• Syllabification: jar?gon

Noun

jargon

1. jargon

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?.???/

Etymology 1

From Old French jargon, gargun ("cheeping of birds"), from a root *garg expressing the sound of the throat or referring to it. See gargouille, gargariser, gargoter.
The initial /?/ sound comes from a softening of /g/, as in jambe

Noun

jargon m (plural jargons)

2. jargon, specialised or unintelligible language

Derived terms

• jargonner
• jargonnesque

Descendants

Etymology 2

From Italian giargone. Doublet of zircon.

Noun

jargon m (plural jargons)

2. jargon, a zircon type

Descendants

• ? Catalan: jargó
• ? English: jargoon
• ? German: Jargon
• ? Greek: ??????? (giarkón)
• ? Russian: ??????? (žargón)
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ??????

  Latin: žargon, jargon

• ? Spanish: jergón

References

“jargon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

jargon

1. Alternative form of jargoun.

Old French

Noun

jargon m (oblique plural jargons, nominative singular jargons, nominative plural jargon)

1. talk; chatter; conversation; talking

Descendants

• French: jargon
  • ? Czech: žargon
  • ? Dutch: jargon
  • ? English: jargon
  • ? Esperanto: ?argono
  • ? German: Jargon
  • ? Hungarian: zsargon
  • ? Macedonian: ?????? (žargon)
  • ? Polish: ?argon
  • ? Portuguese: jargão
  • ? Russian: ??????? m (žargón)
  • ? Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: ????????

    Latin: žàrg?n

  • ? Spanish: jerga
  • ? Swedish: jargong
  • ? Turkish: jargon

Romanian

Etymology

From French jargon

Noun

jargon n (plural jargoane)

1. jargon, slang

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French jargon.

Noun

jargon (definite accusative jargonu, plural jargonlar)

1. jargon

Synonyms

• argo

Volapük

Noun

jargon

1. gibberish
2. A jargon, specialised language