It is though the language that humans express their thoughts, desires, emotions and feelings; it is through it that they store knowledge, transmit messages, knowledge and experience from one person to another, from one generation to another. It is through it that humans interact. It is language again that yokes the present, the past and the future together.
Language is a set of conventional communicative signals used by humans for communication in a community. Language in this sense is a possession of a social group, comprising an indispensable set of rules which permits its members to relate to each other; it is a social institution. Language exists in society; it is a means of nourishing and developing culture and establishing human relations.
It is a member of society that a human being acquires a language. We learn a language as members of the society using that language, or because we want to understand that society or, to be understood by that speech-community. If a language is not used in any society it dies out. Language is thus a social event. It can be described only if we know all about the people who are involved in it, their personalities, their beliefs, attitudes, knowledge of the world, relationship to each other, their social status, what activity they are engaged in what they are talking about, what has gone before linguistically and non-linguistically, what happens after, what they are and host of other facts about them and the situation they are placed in.
By the arbitrariness of language, we mean that there is no inherent or logical relation or similarity between any given feature of language and its meaning. That is entirely arbitrary, that there is no direct, necessary connection between the nature of things or ideas the language deals with, and the linguistics unites are combinations by which these things or ideas are expressed.
That those particular words that imitate the sounds of there referents, for example- buzz, hiss, hum, bang in English and Kal-Kal in Hindi, may seem to invalidate this statement, but such words are comparatively few in different languages, and the accuracy of the limitation depends on the sounds available in the language.
Furthermore, these are a variation in different languages of the world and have no uniformity. Language is the outcome of evolution and convention. Each generation transmits this convention on to the next, Like all human institutions languages also change and die, grow and expand.
Every language then is a conventional community, It is non-instinctive because it is acquired by human beings. Nobody gets a language an innate ability to acquire language.
Animals inherit their system of communication by heredity, humans do not. The symbolism of language is a necessary consequence of the feature of arbitrariness discussed above. A symbol stands for something else; it is something that serves as a substitute.
Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols. For concepts, things ideas, objects etc. Nobody gets a language in heritage, man acquires it and he has been provided with an innate ability to acquire language.
By the arbitrariness of language we mean that there is no inherent or logical relation or similarity between any given feature of language and its meaning. That is entirely arbitrary, that there is no direct, necessary connection between the nature of things or ideas in language. There are variation in different languages of the world and have no uniformity. The symbolism of language is necessary. A symbol stands for something else. It is something that serves as a substitute.
We have sounds and words as symbols. Language and its Communicative Role in Journalism There are many of languages used in verbal communication , with some identified throughout the world. There are three forms. Sign picture language. Vocal spoken language. Symbolic written language. Mario A. Importance of Language in Communication Any language can play a vital role in learning, it enables you to communicate and understand a subject. So the linguists say that speech is primary. Language is Non-instinctive, Conventional : No language was created in a day out of a mutually agreed upon formula by a group of humans.
Language is the outcome of evolution and convention. Each generation transmits this convention on to the next. Like all human institutions languages also change and die, grow and expand. Every language then is a convention in a community. It is non-instinctive because it is acquired by human beings.
No body gets a language in heritage; he acquires it because he an innate ability. Language is Productive and 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. It is also open to be studied from multifaceted angles. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public.
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