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English
Etymology
From meta- + lexicography.
Pronunciation
Noun
metalexicography (uncountable)
- (linguistics, lexicography) The study of lexicography
1986, Robert Ilson, Lexicography: An Emerging International Profession, page 101:Metalexicography can be divided into five fields of interest; the first is lexicographic theory
1988, Ladislav Zgusta et al., Lexicography Today: An Annotated Bibliography of the Theory of Lexicography, page 7:This is a bibliography of works that deal with the theory, methods, and procedures of lexicography (in short, with what is called in French and German metalexicography)
Derived terms
Translations
study of lexicography in the abstract