Language is systematic: Language is system in which there are many systems. Each system language involves system of sound( phonology) system of words (morphology) and system of structure( Syntax). Combination of these system is the system of language. When we use language all system function. Each language is a unique language system. The system of language consist of sound, structure and vocabulary. A child who wants to learn new language has to learn these system of language.
Language with intellectual aspect- All living being communicate with each other through sound and gestures. A language is the code or symbol system that used for communicating thoughts. Through language anyone can express their thought desire and need. we can say language is tool for thinking and it is impossible to think without language. Through language higher order thinking can be done.It is only medium through which inventions ,discoveries ,ideas are conceived and communicated. It helps an individual to express themselves to another.
Language is productive amd creative: Language has creativity and productivity. The structural elements of human language can be combined to produce new utterances, which neither the speaker nor his hearers may ever have made or heard before any, listener, yet which both sides understand without difficulty. Language changes according to the needs of society. Finally, language has other characteristics such as Duality referring to the two systems of sound and meaning. Displacement which means the ability to talk across time and space, Humanness which means that animals cannot acquire it, Universality which refers to the equilibrium across humanity on linguistic grounds, Competence and Performance which means that language is innate and produced is society and furthermore, language is culturally transmitted. It is learnt by an individual from his elders, and is transmitted from one generation to another. Thus using J. Firth’s term, language is a ‘poly systametic’.
Language as expression. The act of making your thoughts, feelings etc known by speech, writing or some other method is the act of expressing something. Language is a universal medium through which people can express their thoughts, feelings views and opinions. languages are nothing but universal set code which are known and understood by everybody and it provides a basic ground for all of us to express ourselves. From the beginning of civilization there are examples of various ancient languages like Egyptian hieroglyphics which combined logography syllabic and alphabetic elements till now the most recent and one of the most used language in the world that is English, language has continued to develop. It is something that is ingrained in human nature. Humans are social creatures their want to share their thoughts ,feelings and ideas with each other has lead to formation and evolution of language. Through language we can put words and word modifiers (prefixes and suffixes )together to create a thought which is meaningful and relevant to the speaker, listener and topic of conversation, thus enabling us to expressing ourselves.
Language is the light of the mind. John Stuart Mill Language is a system of spoken words,symbols made by hands to communicate with each other bor any social group language helps to build mentally and physically by expressing and understanding ourselves with the community. Languages has always expressed feeling, emotions, information to influence others Language is also defied as the system of communication in speech and expression through writing used by people of a particular country.
MEANING AND DEFINITION OF LANGUAGE- Language is the normal way humans communicate. Only humans use language, though other animals communicate through other means. Human language has syntax, a set of rules for connecting words together to make statements and questions. Language can also be changed, by adding new words, for example, to describe new things. It is a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed), or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves.
Definition by collin dictionary- A language is a system of communication which consists of a set of sounds and written symbols which are used by the people of a particular country or region for talking or writing.
✓Language with cultural aspects:- It has been seen that language is much more than the external expression and communication of internal thoughts formulated independently of their verbalization. In demonstrating the inadequacy and inappropriateness of such a view of language, attention has already been drawn to the ways in which one’s native language is intimately and in all sorts of details related to the rest of one’s life in a community and to smaller groups within that community. This is true of all peoples and all languages; it is a universal fact about language.
✓Conclusion:- Through the use of language, any skills, techniques, products, modes of social control, and so on can be explained, and the end results of anyone’s inventiveness can be made available to anyone else with the intellectual ability to grasp what is being said. Spoken language alone would thus vastly extend the amount of usable information in any human community and speed up the acquisition of new skills and the adaptation of techniques to changed circumstances or new environments
Symbols often get noticed when they are out of context. Used unconventionally, they convey strong messages. A stop sign on the door of a corporation makes a political statement, as does a camouflage military jacket worn in an antiwar protest. Together, the semaphore signals for “N” and “D” represent nuclear disarmament—and form the well-known peace sign (Westcott 2008). Today, some college students have taken to wearing pajamas and bedroom slippers to class, clothing that was formerly associated only with privacy and bedtime. Though students might deny it, the outfit defies traditional cultural norms and makes a statement.
Even the destruction of symbols is symbolic. Effigies representing public figures are burned to demonstrate anger at certain leaders. In 1989, crowds tore down the Berlin Wall, a decades-old symbol of the division between East and West Germany, communism, and capitalism.
While different cultures have varying systems of symbols, one symbol is common to all: language. Language is a symbolic system through which people communicate and through which culture is transmitted. Some languages contain a system of symbols used for written communication, while others rely on only spoken communication and nonverbal actions.
Societies often share a single language, and many languages contain the same basic elements. An alphabet is a written system made of symbolic shapes that refer to spoken sound. Taken together, these symbols convey specific meanings. The English alphabet uses a combination of twenty-six letters to create words; these twenty-six letters make up over 600,000 recognized English words
Language is social:- "Language is one of the most important and characteristic forms of human behaviour". It is a descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and society's effect on language. It differs from the sociology of language, which focuses on the effect of language on society. It also studies how language varieties differ between groups separated by certain social variables i.e age groups, religion, status, gender and level of education is used to categorize individuals in social or socioeconomic classes. As the usage of a language varies from place to place, language usage also varies among social classes, and it is these sociolects that sociolinguistics studies.
With widening range and horizon of human thought and action, the language has to keep in step with its social calling. As "language is an activity, a purposeful activity", it must help man to express himself in a variety of new and different kinds of situations. It is the society, that in its turn, bestows meaning towards and idioms by conventionalising them to mean what they mean today to a group or a community, in a variety of complex contexts.
Language is systematic:
ReplyDeleteLanguage is system in which there are many systems. Each system language involves system of sound( phonology) system of words (morphology) and system of structure( Syntax). Combination of these system is the system of language. When we use language all system function. Each language is a unique language system. The system of language consist of sound, structure and vocabulary. A child who wants to learn new language has to learn these system of language.
Language with intellectual aspect-
ReplyDeleteAll living being communicate with each other through sound and gestures. A language is the code or symbol system that used for communicating thoughts. Through language anyone can express their thought desire and need. we can say language is tool for thinking and it is impossible to think without language. Through language higher order thinking can be done.It is only medium through which inventions ,discoveries ,ideas are conceived and communicated. It helps an individual to express themselves to another.
Language is productive amd creative:
ReplyDeleteLanguage has creativity and productivity. The structural elements of human language can be combined to produce new utterances, which neither the speaker nor his hearers may ever have made or heard
before any, listener, yet which both sides understand without difficulty. Language changes according to the needs of society.
Finally, language has other characteristics such as Duality referring to the two systems of sound and meaning. Displacement which means the ability to talk across time and space, Humanness which means that animals cannot acquire
it, Universality which refers to the equilibrium across humanity on linguistic grounds, Competence and Performance which means that language is innate and
produced is society and furthermore, language is culturally transmitted. It is learnt by an individual from his elders, and is transmitted from one generation to another. Thus using J. Firth’s term, language is a ‘poly systametic’.
Language as expression.
ReplyDeleteThe act of making your thoughts, feelings etc known by speech, writing or some other method is the act of expressing something. Language is a universal medium through which people can express their thoughts, feelings views and opinions.
languages are nothing but universal set code which are known and understood by everybody and it provides a basic ground for all of us to express ourselves.
From the beginning of civilization there are examples of various ancient languages like Egyptian hieroglyphics which combined logography syllabic and alphabetic elements till now the most recent and one of the most used language in the world that is English, language has continued to develop. It is something that is ingrained in human nature. Humans are social creatures their want to share their thoughts ,feelings and ideas with each other has lead to formation and evolution of language. Through language we can put words and word modifiers (prefixes and suffixes )together to create a thought which is meaningful and relevant to the speaker, listener and topic of conversation, thus enabling us to expressing ourselves.
Language is the light of the mind.
ReplyDeleteJohn Stuart Mill
Language is a system of spoken words,symbols made by hands to communicate with each other bor any social group language helps to build mentally and physically by expressing and understanding ourselves with the community.
Languages has always expressed feeling, emotions, information to influence others
Language is also defied as the system of communication in speech and expression through writing used by people of a particular country.
MEANING AND DEFINITION OF LANGUAGE-
ReplyDeleteLanguage is the normal way humans communicate. Only humans use language, though other animals communicate through other means. Human language has syntax, a set of rules for connecting words together to make statements and questions. Language can also be changed, by adding new words, for example, to describe new things.
It is a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed), or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves.
Definition by collin dictionary-
A language is a system of communication which consists of a set of sounds and written symbols which are used by the people of a particular country or region for talking or writing.
✓Language with cultural aspects:- It has been seen that language is much more than the external expression and communication of internal thoughts formulated independently of their verbalization. In demonstrating the inadequacy and inappropriateness of such a view of language, attention has already been drawn to the ways in which one’s native language is intimately and in all sorts of details related to the rest of one’s life in a community and to smaller groups within that community. This is true of all peoples and all languages; it is a universal fact about language.
ReplyDelete✓Conclusion:- Through the use of language, any skills, techniques, products, modes of social control, and so on can be explained, and the end results of anyone’s inventiveness can be made available to anyone else with the intellectual ability to grasp what is being said. Spoken language alone would thus vastly extend the amount of usable information in any human community and speed up the acquisition of new skills and the adaptation of techniques to changed circumstances or new environments
Symbols often get noticed when they are out of context. Used unconventionally, they convey strong messages. A stop sign on the door of a corporation makes a political statement, as does a camouflage military jacket worn in an antiwar protest. Together, the semaphore signals for “N” and “D” represent nuclear disarmament—and form the well-known peace sign (Westcott 2008). Today, some college students have taken to wearing pajamas and bedroom slippers to class, clothing that was formerly associated only with privacy and bedtime. Though students might deny it, the outfit defies traditional cultural norms and makes a statement.
ReplyDeleteEven the destruction of symbols is symbolic. Effigies representing public figures are burned to demonstrate anger at certain leaders. In 1989, crowds tore down the Berlin Wall, a decades-old symbol of the division between East and West Germany, communism, and capitalism.
While different cultures have varying systems of symbols, one symbol is common to all: language. Language is a symbolic system through which people communicate and through which culture is transmitted. Some languages contain a system of symbols used for written communication, while others rely on only spoken communication and nonverbal actions.
Societies often share a single language, and many languages contain the same basic elements. An alphabet is a written system made of symbolic shapes that refer to spoken sound. Taken together, these symbols convey specific meanings. The English alphabet uses a combination of twenty-six letters to create words; these twenty-six letters make up over 600,000 recognized English words
Language is social:-
ReplyDelete"Language is one of the most important and characteristic forms of human behaviour".
It is a descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and society's effect on language. It differs from the sociology of language, which focuses on the effect of language on society. It also studies how language varieties differ between groups separated by certain social variables i.e age groups, religion, status, gender and level of education is used to categorize individuals in social or socioeconomic classes. As the usage of a language varies from place to place, language usage also varies among social classes, and it is these sociolects that sociolinguistics studies.
With widening range and horizon of human thought and action, the language has to keep in step with its social calling. As "language is an activity, a purposeful activity", it must help man to express himself in a variety of new and different kinds of situations. It is the society, that in its turn, bestows meaning towards and idioms by conventionalising them to mean what they mean today to a
group or a community, in a variety of complex contexts.