When I say the word 'abstract', I mean the word as it applies to philosophy and law. Or, if you wish, I mean 'abstract' as in abstract thought, or the capacity for abstract thought. Follow
Intralingual definition, within a given language; of or pertaining to a single language. See more.
Definition: The type of language (or linguistic system) used by second-and foreign-language learners who are in the process of learning a target language. Interlanguage pragmatics is the study of the ways in which nonnative speakers acquire, comprehend, and use linguistic patterns (or speech acts) in a second language. The issue, then, is whether the interlanguage representation is a possible grammar, not whether it is identical to the L2 grammar.. ( 2 Lydia White, On the Nature of Interlanguage Representation.. 3  The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, ed. by Catherine Doughty and Michael H. Long.