use-mention distinction

== English == === Noun === use-mention distinction (usually uncountable, plural use-mention distinctions) (linguistics, philosophy) 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. Synonym: words-as-words distinction ==== See also ==== ==== Further reading ==== use-mention distinction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia