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Have you ever wondered how we speak? How about why our communication is considered a language and other animal’s communication is not considered language? A wide range of beliefs exist on what defines language. Thus, by exploring the definition of language and lexicon, evaluating language’s key features, the four levels of language structure and processing, and the role of language in Cognitive Psychology, an understanding of what language is becomes clear. Let us begin by defining language and a term named lexicon.

Language is an incredibly powerful tool for communication and the words we use control the

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.

Language can fill a story with vivid details and show emotion throughout words. The words we use make our imagination bigger and opens up a new experience. Only words can make us feel connect with other people. How we view words depends on how we think and express ourselves.

Linguistic discourse arises from the multiple areas: from studies of primate social behavior, from the comparison of existing human languages, from research on the development of language in children, from studies of genetic and anatomical structures, from cross-cultural studies, from the observation of earning and forming lexicon, and from the studies of the communication of bees, birds, and mammals (cit). Initially, though, language, spoken or signed, was a gestural system that evolved from so-called “mirror system” in the primate brain. Mirror system is a mechanism that allows to equate self actions with actions of others; mirror system's neurons are part of dorsal visual system (citation). The dorsal pathway projects visual information

Language is the acquisition and implementation of rules that govern translation of thought into communication; whereas literacy is the ability to decipher said information. Language originally conveyed concrete ideas through the use of body language and symbols; however, the development of language, now, allows the use of abstract ideas. Language is shared through such ways as, written, graphic and spoken communication. Without correct understanding as to the rules of language, a person’s ability to be literate is diminished; therefore, a person can only be literate if the understand the rules. In the development of language, the rules were not written; yet, today, many of the rules are

Language is a cognitive function that most of us take for granted. It starts from early on, some say at conception, and it develops in complexity as we get older. It is an essential part of communication and without it its development would be greatly hindered. This natural process requires complex structures and reasoning, the bringing together of sounds and words to develop concrete ideas and thoughts. In this paper we will discuss the components of language and how it relates to cognitive processes.

All humans use a language to communicate with other humans. Overtime the human bodies have been modified to accommodate language. The human body uses 6 organs to accomplish language. The 6 organs are the lungs, vocal cords, tongue, teeth, lips and nose. Although these 6 organs main functions are eating and breathing, they have been modified over time to help exercise humans control during speech production. Linguistics is the study of how language works. Language changes over time to fit the current population. Creativity is a must in language because it gives us the freedom to produce and understand new words and sentences as the need arises. However, there are boundaries within which innovation can occur. The human language is very complex

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

In order to verbally communicate language is needed. Using the English language we use sounds, words, and grammar to send a message to another person. The words have meaning and use grammar to set guidelines on the structure. We learn how to use sounds to form words that have definitions. We use these words to form sentences to help explain the thoughts and ideas we want to send to another person. We use language as a bridge to carry our thoughts and ideas from the mind and brain to oral messages. On occasion verbal communication can be confused with an unintentional meaning. Occasionally people say words they do not know the correct meaning which will confuse the listener. Other time words have the same sound but different meaning such as the two words: fore and four.

To make language devoid of the social context of its creation and use is to dislocate it from which it derives its meanings. Thus ridding it of its use with the only benefit of understanding what it is made up of. However, understanding what language is made of and understanding how to use it are two different things, neither of which will give you a complete understanding of language on its own. Using Gardner’s analogy of language being like a fish you dissect as well as observe within its habitat, to view language as devoid of its social context is to remove the fish from the ocean, the environment in which is serves its purpose. In order to understand what forms it, however, removal and dissection is necessary. Unfortunately, neither

According to Edward Sapir (1921), language is defined as a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desire by means of voluntarily produced symbols. As stated in ‘Language and Communication’ by Jack C. Richard, communication is understood as the exchange and

Within Gee & Hayes (2011) the authors suggest that language can be understood as a cognitive process, something that is in our head, our brain and minds that tell us how to speak. Another view is that it is a physical aspect that is present in the form of speech, recordings and writings. It can also be viewed as a means of social convention shared by a group of people, about

Linguistics is a key factor of communication that is used every day, by essentially every human being. The human communication system is complex and not always easy to learn. There are multiple components, including phonetics, morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Knowledge of all of these components is what helps for humans to produce language. Linguistic competence is defined by The Free Dictionary (2008) as a speaker’s implicit, internalized knowledge of the rules of their language. A person with linguistic competence understands how to use a language correctly and properly in order to get the correct message across. In order to understand a speaker, it is important to have an understanding of the language being

Every human culture has created a language, although not all have been improved on to be written, they all share similar properties that govern the way the language is used (ppt w1). These properties of language are what allow it to be described as a system, they include; Phonology which are sounds that make up words, Lexis are essentially just words, Orthography are standardised spelling rules, Semantics which are the meanings of individual words, sentences and phrases (ppt wk1), and Syntax, which is the grouping or the construction of words to make phrases and sentences that are correct in standard English (bk4). There are ways in which words must be placed in a sentence, written or verbal, that are acceptable, for example, a sentence can not end with a preposition such as “where I’m at.” (bk3). These rules are not quite like grammatical rules, they differ slightly for Syntax, for example its Syntactically incorrect to place two negative words in a sentence such as “I didn’t do nothing wrong” as it will come to mean that he actually did do something wrong (bk4). At an early age children are not taught grammar or syntax, rather they learn these properties from hearing, interacting, and mimicking other members within their culture and community (bk3). It isn’t only grammatical properties of language such as Syntax that children learn through interaction, it is the same with literacy. Literacy is learnt and perfected through