Metalinguistics

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Metalinguistics is the branch of linguistics that studies language and its relationship to other cultural behaviors.^{[citation needed][dubious – discuss]} It is the study of how different parts of speech and communication interact with each other and reflect the way people live and communicate together. Jacob L. Mey in his book, Trends in Linguistics,^[1] describes Mikhail Bakhtin's interpretation of metalinguistics as "encompassing the life history of a speech community, with an orientation toward a study of large events in the speech life of people and embody changes in various cultures and ages."