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Saussure was confronted with the suggestion of some sort of "meta" - linguistics which happens within language rather than being imposed as a categorical imperative from "outside."

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  1. In Roman antiquity, a conical column or post, or, usually, a group of three such posts, at each end of the spina of a circus, serving to mark the place of turning; a turning-post. On the other side of the figure of the queen-goddess is a tall hippodrome meta, enriched with garlands of flowers—probably having reference to the sacred contests at the founding of a new city. The Academy, June 15, 1889, p. 417.

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  • Clipblast. com, which can be classified as a meta search engine that searches for online videos in 'real-time', announced today their Top 10 most popular searches for Internet video clips in 2006. —  Search Engine Watch Blog
  • This new study performed a complex statistical evaluation, called a meta-analysis, of 4 prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled colorectal cancer prevention trials that, together, included almost 3,000 patient volunteers. —  MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
  • Early SR methodology was advanced by social scientists, and the term meta-analysis was coined by a social scientist who also conducted research in psychology. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • One of the factors, aside from what we might call the meta-level ones, that accounts for this phenomenon is that critics are often writing for a specialised audience. —  Larvatus Prodeo
  • The audience for alpha is thus double-meta, and is likely to be very small, sometimes even smaller than the team working on it. —  furia log
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