Language, Talk, Speech, And Communication

Language is the the primary way of communicating with one another. This can be written or spoken.

It only takes one word to process the word language in a person’s mind, and that is purely the language that he/she speaks. Language is the immediate translator of communication. Author Thompson Olusegun Ewata writes in his book Business Communication for Academic and professional Purposes that “Language is a vehicle that we use in presenting ideas, thoughts, feelings, opinions to the world” (Ewata 2010). In other words, language is how people share with others all of the information they are processing. Science fiction author Philip K. Dick expands on this relationship between language and communication in his novel The Penultimate Truth, by demonstrating the connections and flow of information from the above-ground and below-ground people.

Speech means that someone is speaking out loud to inform someone what is on their mind or how they feel. For example, a child telling a practitioner what they did the previous night. Language is a preferred way of communicating with someone. For example, a child may use hand signs as well as using verbal communication, pointing at what they are talking about. Communication is about different methods of telling people information. For example, a child may speak out loud to an adult. Someone who has speech, language and communication needs (SLC needs) has a problem when it comes to communication. This could be because they speak another language which many do not, or they could have learning difficulties which can make it harder to understand many things.

* Language- Is a way in which you communicate with words or set of symbols that can be spoken, written or signed.

Language – Method of communication either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured or conventional way. A recognised structured system of gestures, signs and symbols used to communicate. Body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, geographical area or same cultural tradition.

Language is a method in which individuals communicate in order to get their opinion across to the listening party. Language is the tool which ideas can be conveyed in various ways. Typically, language is referred to verbal communication, however, it ranges to all methods of communication i.e. sign language.

Language can be defined as a means of communication through spoken sounds, written symbols, or hand and body gestures. Subject to this simple definition language is neither human nor animal exclusive, meaning that all living creatures use some form of language to communicate. Humans have created the most advanced system of language. Human language has advanced to include listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing and visual representation. These components are known as the six language arts and while they are individual components they are as well interdependent. What you learn about one affects what and how you learn about the others.

1.1 Speech means vocally expressing your thoughts and feelings out loud, “verbal communication; the act of speaking, the articulation of words to express thoughts, feelings or ideas” – Meggitt (2011. 327). Language means using both speech and body language to convey your emotions. “A recognised, structured system of gestures, signs and symbol used to communicate”– Megitt (2011.327). Communication means exchanging information through speech, facial expressions and body language. “The transmission of thoughts, feelings or information via body language, signals, speech or writing” – Meggitt (2011.327). Speech, language and communication needs means an issue that impairs one’s ability to be able to communicate. “A problem that affects a person’s ability to express their thoughts, feelings and ideas” – Meggitt (2011.327).

Encouragement is an important tool for helping children develop in their language and communication skills and should be used as much as possible. Adults will need to give children the opportunity to take part in speaking and listening for many different purposes and situations and this can be achieved either in a whole class or small group setting Language is important in these roles and we should encourage them by asking them to talk about their own ideas.

The term language refers to an understood, systematic arrangement of signs, symbols and gestures used to communicate.

Explanation of speech, language, communication and speech, language and communication needs 1.1 Children and adults use speech, language and communication to interact with others, to help them explore the environment, to make sense of everyday experiences, access information and understand concepts, as well as organise thoughts and formulate ideas and to help them express their own feelings and to understand the feelings of others (Children and Young People’s Workforce Cache level 3). Speech is the faculty or act of expressing or describing thoughts, feelings, or perceptions by the articulation of words. It is a part of verbal or oral communication

There are many different ways in which humans can communicate as well as animals, but it is speech that is one of the most distinguishing capabilities in which humans only possess. Speech is defined differently from language. Speech is the vocalized form of communication. It is based upon the syntactical combination of many sounds to make different words that are drawn from extremely large vocabularies. Animal communication consists of only a few distinct sounds or calls in order to communicate immediate situations for survival purposes, such as danger, hunger, and

Our basic mean of communication among species and interspecies is thru language. Language enables us to communicate with each other, our thoughts and feelings, ideas and concepts, likes, and dislikes, fears, dreams

Language is something that we need and use for everything in our lives. Language is, “a symbolic communication system that is learned instead of biologically inherited.” (O’Neil, 2006). Language is communication that is either written down or spoken in words or sentences. We need to have a good understanding of language to learn, work and for our normal lives. You need to know language to be able to communicate with other people. Language has structure and meaning, for example words and sentences. Language also had tone, pitch, pace and volume. There are several types of language, receptive language, expressive language, emergent language. Receptive language is how you receive and understand language and expressive language is how

Although, there is no agreed definition of language among linguists, but we can say that language is the most sophisticated way of communication between any two human beings and far more complex than any other system of communication. The ability of acquiring and using languages is one of the properties that differs us as human beings from other species.