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Metalanguage in linguistics is a language used to make statments about language (the object language). Formal syntatic models for the description of grammar, eg. generative grammar, are a type of metalanguage. More broadly, it can refer to any terminology or language used to discuss language itself - a written grammar, for example, or a discussion about language use.
