[...] ‘metasemiology is in practice identical with the so-called description of substance’. The task of metasemiology is to undertake a self-consistent, exhaustive, and simplest possible analysis of the ‘things’ which appeared for semiology as irreducible individuals (or localized entities) of content and of the ‘sounds’ (or written marks, etc.) which appeared for semiology as irreducible individuals (or localized entities) of expression.
- Hjelmslev (1961), Pag. 124

[...] we can use the designation ‘metasemiology’ of a meta-(scientific semiotic) whose object semiotics are semiologies.
- Hjelmslev (1961), Pag. 120

Metasemiology must [...] direct its interest, not toward the language, already described by semiology, which semiology uses, but toward the eventual modifications of it or additions to it which semiology has introduced to produce its special jargon [...] Its sphere is [...] the special ‘terminology’ of semiology [...].
- Hjelmslev (1961), Pag. 121

The task of metasemiology is [...] to subject the minimal signs of semiology, whose content is identical with the ultimate content- and expression-variants of the object semiotic (language), to a relational analysis according to the same procedure as is generally prescribed for the textual analysis.
- Hjelmslev (1961), Pag. 123