The Concept Metalanguage, its Origin, its Reception and Interpretation in the Arab Region: A Study Across the books of `Beyond language - research into cognitive backgrounds ` by Abdul-Salam Al-Masadi and `The Linguist and the Meta-Linguistic – in Fitnat Elmotakhaiel (in the Temptation of the Imaginary) ` by Muhammad Al-Habib Al-Kahlawi

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Abstract : This study aims at understanding the concept of metalanguage: its origins, definition, its perception by the Arb receiver, its translation and its interpretation. The human being is unique living being in terms of using the language to express his thoughts linguistically without even knowing that he is applying the grammar of the language. In connection to this, the philosophical thought, ancient and new, paid a significant attention to language. Therefore, trends in schools of linguistics and publications have varied introducing definitions of language and linguistics particularly at the age of globalization during which knowledge has become open access due to the services technology affords for the scientific study of language. Accordingly, research has overstepped the narrow boundaries to search deeper in metalanguage. As a result, studies in linguistics have contributed to establishing a theory of the concept of metalanguage leading to the emergence of many definitions of the term specifically after the work of Ferdinand De Saussure who was interested in language and the science of language. Immediately then a philosophical question that goes beyond the simple study and naive definitions to a deeper philosophy represented by meta-philosophy crops up. Iin other words, it questions what is meta-philosophy, its most important cognitive dimensions, the specificity of this prefix (meta), which has influenced all research and all modern studies, transforming it from the path of research into the subject to research into metaphysics, and finally how it was received by Arab studies translated, theorized, transmitted, and applied this prefix ? Keywords: meta, meta-language, beyond, tongue, linguistics.