Definition of language

Definition Of Language by Different Linguists.

1. Definition of LANGUAGE . by: Kaustubh Kumbhalwar.

2. LANGUAGE. Language is simply defined as “ A MEANS OF COMMUNICATION”. Language helps us express our feelings and thoughts. To be more scientific, a language can be defined as: “An arbitrary system of creative vocal symbols used as a means of communication among human beings”.

3. Edward Sapir  was an American  anthropologist - linguist , who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States. Edward Sapir says: “Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols”. DEFINITION OF LANGUAGE BY LINGUISTS.

4. Avram Noam Chomsky   is an American linguist, philosopher, historian and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics“. In the words of Chomsky: “ language is a set of (finite or infinite) sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements.”

5. R. A. Hall was an American Linguists. In the Words of Hall: “the institution whereby humans communicate and interact with each other by means of habitually used oral-auditory arbitrary symbols”.

6. Bernard Bloch and George L. Trager were the American Linguists. In their Outline of Linguists Analysis Bloch and Trager wrote: “ A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group co-operates”.

7. Leonard Bloomfield was an American  linguist  who led the development of  structural linguistics  in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s.  Bloomfield says: “the situation in which the speaker utters it and the response which it calls forth in the hearer.”

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