536925821-1-The-Nature- of -Language.pdf

The nature of Language in Purposive Communication

1. The Nature of Language
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2. 1. describe the nature of
language;
2. explain the
characteristics of
language;
3. evaluate their
previous idea of
language and
compared it with the
concepts discussed in
the class.
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3. Enduring Understanding
Basically, languagecan be defined as the
tool used in communication process.
It is through language that we are able to
express our thoughts, share our feelings,
and communicate our views and
perspectives about things.
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4. Enduring Understanding
However, language can also be the
source of misunderstanding sometimes.
That is because there is no one-to-one
correspondence between words and
meanings, and even between gestures
and meanings.
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5. Enduring Understanding
•Take for instance the following example:
Karonis a word found both in Hiligaynon
and Cebuano languages referring to the
concept of time. But while karonin Cebuano
means ‘now’, karonin Hiligaynon means ‘later’.
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6. Enduring Understanding
It is therefore important that we are
familiar with a particular language so
that we can understand it and use it in
the communication process.
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7. Enduring Understanding
DEFINITIONS OF LANGUAGE
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8. Enduring Understanding
1.Languageis a purely human and non-
instinctive method of communicating
ideas, emotions, and desires by means
of a system of voluntarily produced
symbols.
~Sapir (1921)
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9. Enduring Understanding
2. Languageis the process whereby
humans communicate and interact with
each other by means of habitually used
oral-auditory arbitrary symbols.
~Hall (1969)
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10. Enduring Understanding
•3. Languageis a system of arbitrary vocal
symbols used for human communication.
~Wardaugh(1972)
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11. Enduring Understanding
Characteristics of Language
(Fromkinand Rodman, 2003)
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12. Enduring Understanding
1.Wherever humans exist, language
exists.
2.All languages change through time.
3.All grammars contain rules for the
formation of words and sentences
of a similar kind.
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13. Enduring Understanding
4. Similar grammatical categories (e.g.
noun, verb, etc.) are found in all
languages.
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14. Enduring Understanding
5. Any normal child, born anywhere in the
world, of any racial, geographical, social, or
economic heritage, is capable of learning
any language to which s/he is exposed to.
The differences we find among languages
cannot be due to biological reasons.
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15. Enduring Understanding
6. All human languages utilize a finite set of
discrete sounds (or gestures) that are
combined to form meaningful elements or
words, which themselves form an infinite set
of possible sentences
7. Similar grammatical categories (noun, verb,
etc.) are found in all languages.
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16. Enduring Understanding
8. There are semantic universals such as
“male” or “female”, “animate” or
“inanimate” found in every language in the
world.
9. Every language has a way of referring to
past time, negating, forming questions, etc.
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17. Enduring Understanding
10. Speakers of all languages are capable of
producing and comprehending an
infinite set of sentences.
11. Language is primarily oral.
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18. Baradillo, Cobrador, Mamonong, et al., 2018.
Nature of Language. Purposive Communication
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