LANGUAGE
&
LITERATURE
OBJECTIVES
ANALYZE THE DEFINITION AND
CHARACTERISTICS OF LANGUAGE
STATE THE FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE
EXPLAIN THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE
Language is a system of communication that relies
on verbal or non-verbal codes to transfer
information. Communication is a way of
interchanging messages or information between
two or more people, focusing on the message.
Language is a tool of communication.
CHARACTERISTICS
OF
LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE IS SYSTEMIC (A SYSTEM)
A LANGUAGE IS A STRUCTURED SYSTEM
OF COMMUNICATION WHICH CONSISTS
OF A SET OF SOUNDS, SIGNS AND/OR
WRITTEN SYMBOLS WHICH ARE USED BY
THE PEOPLE OF A PARTICULAR
COUNTRY, REGION OR GROUP FOR
TALKING, WRITING OR
COMMUNICATING.
LANGUAGE IS SYMBOLIC
ALMOST EVERY SINGLE
LANGUAGE SYSTEM EVER USED
BY HUMANS IS PRIMARILY
MADE UP OF SYMBOLS. A
SYMBOL IS SOMETHING THAT
STANDS IN FOR OR
REPRESENTS SOMETHING
ELSE.
LANGUAGE IS LANGUAGE IS SOCIAL
SYSTEMATIC
LANGUAGE IS SOCIAL IN
ALTHOUGH THAT INTERACTION WITH
LANGUAGE IS OTHER PERSONS IS
SYMBOLIC, ITS PSYCHOLOGICALLY
SYMBOLS ARE NECESSARY TO LEARN
ARRANGED IN A LANGUAGE.
PARTICULAR WE USE LANGUAGE TO BE
SYSTEM, NOT IN IN A COMMUNITY, TO
RANDOM
MANNERS. COMMUNICATE WITH
OTHERS.
LANGUAGE IS LANGUAGE IS
ARBITRARY CULTURAL
SWISS LINGUIST DE
SAUSSURE CLAIMED THAT LANGUAGE IS ONE OF
LANGUAGE IS ARBITRARY THE MOST
BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF IMPORTANT PARTS
A NATURAL RELATIONSHIP OF ANY CULTURE.
BETWEEN THE SIGNIFIER
(LANGUAGE FORM) AND CULTURE AS A
THE SIGNIFIED WHOLE IS
(REFERENT). TRANSMITTED
THROUGH
LANGUAGE.
LANGUAGE LANGUAGE IS
IS VARIATION
DYNAMIC
LANGUAGE IS VARIATION.
LANGUAGE IS THERE IS MORE THAN ONE
DYNAMIC WAY OF SAYING THE SAME
BECAUSE IT IS
ALWAYS THING. SPEAKERS MAY
CHANGING, VARY PRONOUNCIATION
EVOLVING, AND (ACCENT), WORD CHOICE
ADAPTING TO (LEXICON), OR
ITS USERS ' MORPHOLOGY AND
NEEDS. SYNTAX (GRAMMAR).
LANGUAGE IS LANGUAGE IS
MEANINGFUL HUMAN
LANGUAGE IS HUMAN
A LANGUAGE AS IT DIFFERS FROM
SIGNAL/SYMBOL
ALWAYS CONVEYS ANIMAL
MEANING. IN COMMUNICATION IN
LINGUISTIC TERMS, SEVERAL WAYS. THE
ALL THE CHARACTERISTICS
SYMBOLS/SIGNALS
OF LANGUAGE HAVE HIGHLIGHTED ABOVE
A SEMANTIC SET APART LANGUAGE
CONTENT. FROM ANIMAL
COMMUNICATION
FORMS.
FUNCTIONS
OF
LANGUAGE
The Expressive
Function
The Informational
Function People use this function
of language each time
This function can be when they need to share
considered the most their feelings. When
important among your goal is to express
others because it is attitude, it is not
responsible for necessarily to deliver
describing things any specific information
and delivering but the words that show
your emotions.
messages that
provide readers or
listeners with new
information.
The Directive The Aesthetic
Function Function
This function is They don't convey
somewhat similar to the messages or requests
previous one because but serve as a tool of
the general meaning of poetic art. Just like an
the phrase is not as expressive function,
important here as this one can be used in
affective and situational fiction literature,
meanings. People use it poetry, music, movies,
to induce specific and other art
reactions or actions. directions where it is
necessary to show
beauty.
The Phatic Function
The last language
function, according to
Geoffery Leech, is the
phatic one. It has a
primary purpose to
establish social
relationships, to
maintain a
conversation
IMPORTANCE
OF
LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE HELPS US EXPRESS OUR
FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS — THIS IS
UNIQUE TO OUR SPECIES BECAUSE IT IS
A WAY TO EXPRESS UNIQUE IDEAS AND
CUSTOMS WITHIN DIFFERENT
CULTURES AND SOCIETIES.
BY LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE,
YOU CAN UNDERSTAND IDEAS AND
THOUGHTS THAT MAY BE DIFFERENT
FROM YOUR OWN CULTURE. YOU CAN
LEARN CUSTOMS AND HOW PEOPLE
INTERACT IN A GIVEN SOCIETY.
LANGUAGE HELPS PRESERVE CULTURES,
BUT IT ALSO ALLOWS US TO LEARN
ABOUT OTHERS AND SPREAD IDEAS
QUICKLY.
“A different
language is a
different
vision of
life.”
— Federico
Fellini
REFERENCES:
HTTPS://BILINGUALKIDSPOT.
COM/2022/07/27/CHARACTE
RISTICS-OF-LANGUAGE/
HTTPS://STUDYBAY.COM/BL
OG/FIVE-FUNCTIONS-OF-
TERMS-LEECH-1974/
HTTPS://WWW.UOPEOPLE.E
DU/BLOG/WHY-IS-
LANGUAGE-IMPORTANT/
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