Communication, Language, Meta-Language

Insofar as Philosophy is a mode of Communication, and a study requires distance from its object, a Philosophy of Communication is problematic.  Unhelpful to such a project is a device employed in seemingly similar enterprises--the 'Meta-Language'.  For, while the 'meta-' might suffice to connote distance, 'Language' is an inert abstraction from 'Communication', e. g. typically a representation of the Vocabulary and the Grammatical patterns of the latter, which distance alone does not reanimate.  Indeed, that shortcoming afflicts those contexts in which the device is most frequently used--many varieties of 'Philosophy of Language', as evidenced by the susceptibility of the involved 'meta-language' to infinite further objectification, i. e. to a 'meta-meta-language', etc.  So, the Philosophy of Language, as typically conceived, is an inadequate exemplar for a Philosophy of Communication, and, may be less sound an enterprise than its practitioners seem to appreciate.