Reflexiveness

自反性

A suggested defining property of human language whereby language can be used to ‘talk about’ language. If a linguistic form is used as a citation form, it is said to be used reflexively.

也被认为是人类语言的一个定义特性，指语言能用来“谈论”语言自身。如果一个语言形式用作引用形式，就说它作“自反”用。