Métalangage et épi-sémiotique. L'exemple du lexique de la dégustation

International audienceThe purpose of this paper is a reflection about metalanguage led in two parts: at first, the relationships between metalanguage and language-object will be studied and the lower limit of their claimed hierarchy will be questioned. In a second part, the authors will consider the emergence of a metalanguage by taking support on the practice institutionalized by the tasting of wines. Such an essay on this terminological setting up focuses the problem of metalanguage Abstracts 451 not only on the facts of language but also, and specially, on a meta-semiotical relationship. This leads the authors to reconsider the hierarchical conception of the metalanguage for the benefit of a cyclic process