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  1. assets.cambridge.org › 9780521852579_excerpt1 Introduction: What is language? - Cambridge University Press

    Overview. In this chapter you’ll learn about the complex relationship between language and identity. Language reflects both the individual characteristics of a person, as well as the beliefs and practices of his or her community.

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  2. www.uio.no › studier › emnerChapter 1 What is language? - Universitetet i Oslo

    What is language? language across the planet. It is concerned with the immense variety among the languages of the world, as well as the common traits that. cut across the differences. The book presents a number of analytic tools for comparing and contrasting different languages, and for seeing any one particular language in a la.

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  4. www.ugr.es › ~fmanjon › Sapir, Edward - Language, AnLANGUAGE AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY - Universidad de Granada

    Language a cultural, not a biologically inherited, function. Futility of interjectional and sound-imitative theories of the origin of speech. Definition of language. The psycho-physical basis of speech. Concepts and language. Is thought possible without language? Abbreviations and transfers of the speech process. The universality of language. 2.

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  5. link.springer.com › content › pdfWhat Is Language? - Springer

    icant difference.Language, the faculty for communication by speech sounds, is a universal characteristic. f the human race. Butnot we share do one medium of communication; Russians and Arabs speak di. ferent languages. Alanguage, then, is medium a of communication specific to society a ; i forms part of the culture.

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  6. assets.cambridge.org › 9780521297752_excerptLanguage - Cambridge University Press & Assessment

    The word 'language' is applied, not only to English, Chinese, Malay, Swahili, etc. - i.e. to what everyone will agree are languages properly so called - but to a variety of other systems of communication, notation or calculation, about which there is room for dispute.

  7. linguistics.ucla.edu › ling-introIntroduction to Linguistics - University of California, Los ...

    Language is a means to communicate, it is a semiotic system. By that we simply mean that it is a set of signs. Its A sign is a pair consisting—in the words of Ferdinand de Saussure—of a signifier and a signified. We prefer to call the signifier the exponent and the signified the meaning. For example, in English the

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  9. assets.cambridge.org › 9780521543934_excerpt1 Introduction: notions of language - Assets

    This book explores the biological and social aspects of language, and how they interact with each other and with culture. It covers topics such as natural language, language diversity, language acquisition, language change, and language and society.

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