metalanguage的译法《哲学译丛》92年第1期曾提出 metaphilosophy译为“元哲学”是否妥当的问题。我们也常看到不少译者把 metalanguage 译为“元语言”。这种译法是否妥当,似乎很可以和 metaphilosophy 的译法一起考虑和研究。英国哲学家A.弗卢(Flew)在他所编《哲学词典》(1979)中这样解释:“metalanguage 是用来谈论一个对象语言(object language)及其组成词的语言。因此如果一篇论俄语的论文是用英语写的,俄语就是对象语言,英语是 metalanguage。可是,如果我们用英语写关于英语的问题,那么英语既是 Metalanguage translation “Philosophy translation Cong” No. 92, No. 92 had put forward metaphilosophy translated as “metaphysics” is the right question. We often see many translators translate metalanguage into “metalanguage.” This translation is appropriate, it seems very metaphilosophy and translation can be considered and studied. The British philosopher Flew explains in his Philosophical Dictionary (1979) that metalanguage is a language used to talk about an object language and its constituent words, so if an article on Russian Is written in English, Russian is the object language, and English is metalanguage. However, if we write about English in English, then English is both