??Languageisanintegralpartofourlifeandhumanity.(details)?Yetweknowlittleorevenhaveevenwrongideasaboutlanguage.·efrom?How?When?·Whyislanguagehuman-specific?·Whycanachildlearnhis/hermothertongueinashortperiodoftime?·hingbutmeananother?·Languagehasaform-meaningcorrespondence.·Thefunctionoflanguageistoexchangeinformation?:·Howthebrainworks.·Howchildrenlearnlanguage.·Whypeopleusedifferentvarietiesoflanguage.·Whattheroleoflanguageisindifferentcultures,?Differentsensesof“language”:·Badlanguage:expressions·Shakespeare’slanguage:idiolect·Businesslanguage:variety·TheEnglishlanguage:abstractsystem·Astudentoflanguage:universalpropertiesofallspeech/writingsystems?Definitionoflanguageasaresearchsubject(inageneralandabstractsense):,itmustincludedirectly,orbycloseimplication,somemainattributesoflanguageasfollows:·Languageissystematic.(ordingtorules.)·Languageisarbitrary.(Arosebyanyothernamewouldsmellassweet.)·Languageisbasicallyvocal—theprimarymediumissoundforalllanguages.·.·Languageishuman-specific—birdsongsandbeedances·:“language”(Computerlanguage,bodylanguage,signlanguag
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