This paper draws together metacognitive theory of writing (MTW) and integrational linguistics/the distributed language perspective (DLP). These perspectives seem to disagree about the status and sources of meta-linguistic awareness. While integrationists/DLP maintain that metalinguistic awareness represents an intrinsic property of first-order languaging, the MTW argues that a metalinguistic awareness appears only after gaining skills in dealing with aggregates of symbolizations created and processed in the relevant literate contexts. The paper illustrates the point that divergent cognitive dynamics of speech and writing have a significant impact on the level of metalinguistic awareness. In order to reconcile seemingly contradictory statements about metalinguistic awareness appearing in each perspective, the meaning of the terms “reflective” and “reflexive” needs to be scrutinized.

本文将写作的元认知理论（MTW）与整合语言学/分布式语言视角（DLP）结合在一起。这些观点似乎在元语言意识的地位和来源上存在分歧。尽管整合论者/ DLP坚持认为元语言意识代表着一阶语言的内在属性，但MTW认为，只有在掌握了在相关识字环境中创建和处理的符号集合的技能后，元语言意识才会出现。本文阐明了以下观点：言语和写作的不同认知动力对元语言意识的水平产生重大影响。为了调和每个角度出现的关于元语言意识的看似矛盾的陈述，