How do you talk about a word or phrase itself?

Question

Basically, I want to know how to talk about the meta properties of a word or phrase while mentioning said word or phrase in the same sentence.

Maybe って is somehow involved, but I don't know even know how to search for the question I'm asking.

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For example, maybe I want to say something like:

I don't like the word '料理' (because it is hard to pronounce).

発音が難しいから「料理」が好きじゃない。

or with a phrase

'まーしょうがない' is a useful phrase.

「まーしょうがない」は便利だ。

In spoken form this makes less sense, as I don't know how to specify "the word/phrase". Do I add anything on to the word or phrase to accomplish this? I don't even know where to start.

Answer 1

Yes, you can use って, but here って is a contraction of と言う; it can also appear as って言う. Here are some options you can choose from:

発音が難しいから「料理」って言う言葉が好きじゃない。

「料理」と言う言葉が好きじゃない。発音が難しいし。

「料理」って言葉が気に入らない。発音が難しいし。

The same goes for the other one.

Answer 2

I'm pretty sure I found the answer. I had the idea to search 英語で役立つ言葉, and just look at those articles for examples.

The phrase I was looking for was 「という言葉」.

To answer the first example with this:

「料理」という言葉が好きじゃない。

Some confirmation would still be nice, but I am quite confident this is it.