use-mention distinction (English, noun)
expansion: use-mention distinction (usually uncountable, plural use-mention distinctions)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The distinction between the use of a word for its meaning (as in cheese is derived from milk) and the mention of a word as a lexical unit (as in cheese is derived from a word in Old English); an instance of this distinction.
tags: uncountable
usually
Forms:
form: use-mention distinctions
tags: plural