英语语言学小论文

What is language?
1．Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.
2. Language is a language through practice and stored in a particular social group among all members of the treasury, is a latent among each brain grammar system, more precisely, a latent group of NPC in brain syntax system, because the language in any of the brain is not complete, it is only in the presence of the population was able to complete.
3. Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of comm unicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced s ymbols.
4.A language is a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in le ngth and constructed out of a finite set of elements. – Chomsky The similarity above the definition is that language is a voice for the shell material, the vocabulary and grammar symbol system constructed and capable of expressing human thought.
Language distinguishes us from animals because it is far more sophisticated than any animal communication system, which is mankind's most important communication tool for people to communicate and is the expression of a variety of symbols. It is an important feature of the nation.
Language is the medium exchange of ideas; it is bound to have an
impact on the political, economic and social, technological and even culture itself. Language of this cultural phenomenon is growing; it is now the spatial distribution of the results of past development.
According to common origin relationship with its pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary and other aspects characteristic of the language, every nation has their own language of the world. Language is the sound signals having a unified codec standard communication needs between organisms similar due enacted.
And the differences between the definitions on my aspect are as follows: there are talking about language’s different usages such as how it has been formed, how it accumulated in people’s life, how it worked and its functions.
Linguist Ferdinand de Saussure pointed out that Language features are: 1. He is the general confounding facts in the speech activities of a well-defined object, it is the social part of the speech.
2 Language is that people can points out the object of study
3 words are heterogeneous, and set down the language is homogeneous, it is a symbolic system, in the system, only the combination of sense and sound image is the main, two parts of the symbol are psychological.
4 Language of this object in particular on favorably than words. That is the sound image of the stack; it can be converted to text.
5. Language status in the humanities fact: The Semiotics - Language is the expression of an idea of symbol systems.
All in all, language is an important tool and subject, it can make us understand how amazing it can work and bring the magic influence in our life. Each language includes varying amounts of languages, these languages and languages have some distribution in the region, many cultural characteristics are closely related with this. To learn different languages can let us know about more from the outside world.
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