metareflexive
English
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[edit]metareflexive (comparative more metareflexive, superlative most metareflexive)
- Reflecting on the process of reflection.
- 1989, Malcolm Ashmore, The Reflexive Thesis, page 60:
- Examples of metareflexive texts include Derridean deconstruction, Garfinkelian ethnomethodology […] Metareflexive writers are obsessed with methodology to the exclusion of all else […]
- 2013, Greg Hainge, Noise Matters: Towards an Ontology of Noise, page 194:
- 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.