Language is succinctly defined in our glossary as a "human system of communication that uses arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols." But frankly, language is far too complicated, intriguing, and mysterious to be adequately explained by a brief definition
According to the scientist:
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
"Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born--the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things."
(Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, 1954)
(Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, 1954)
“Language is a system of symbols that are meaningful and articulate sound (generated by said tool) which are arbitrary and conventional,which is used as a means of communicating by a group of human beings to give birth to feelings and thoughts.” (Wibowo,2001)
Tarin (1989),gives two definition of the language:
1. Language is a system that systematically,perhaps also for generative systems
2. Language is a set of symbols as you like it or arbitrary symbols.
PLATO, language is essentially a statement of one's mind by means onomata (name objects or something) and rhemata (speech), which is a reflection of the idea of someone in the flow of air through the mouth.
Harimurti Kridalaksana, 1993:21, Language is a symbol system sounds an arbitrary language that allows people to work together, interact, and identify.
Wittgenstein, Language is a form of thinking that can be understood, in touch with reality, and has the form and structure of logical
WILLIAM A. Haviland, Language is a system of sounds that when combined according to certain rules pose meanings can be captured by all the people who speak the language
Function of language
The main function of language is as a communication tool, or a means to convey information, thoughts,
The main function of language is as a communication tool, or a means to convey information, thoughts,
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