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What is the Language?

Nicole Estefanía Obando Estupiñan

Created on November 2, 2021

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What is the Language?

Ability to talk, to comunicate, to produce and understand spoken, written words and signs.

Prescritive

Teaching

Universal

System and structure of a language.

Linguistic Knowledge

Set of principles, rules and conditions that are shared by all languages

Detailed explanation of the meaning and contexts in which these structures are to be used.

Grammar

The profund unconscious knowledge of a language.

System and structure of a language.

Descriptive

Analyze syntax, morphology, phonology and semantics in the most specific way.

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Properties of Language

Productivity

Arbitrariness

Duality

Cultural Transmition

Displacement

No natural connection between a linguistic form and its meaning

Allows us to refer about abstract things.

  • Human & Animal Language

Two Levels:

  • Elements
  • Units

The ability to create/ invent new words.

The process where language is passed from one generation to other.

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