‘1422, 544 PM. 10 Main Feaures Or Charactorstes of language » Smart English Notes <, SMART ENGLISH NOTES a = Q Table of Contents (hide) 10 Main Characteristics of language Language is verbal, vocal: Language is sound Language is a means of communication Language is a social phenomenon Language is arbitrary Language is non-instinctive, conventional Language is symbolic Language is systematic Language is unique, creative, complex and modifiable Language is human and structurally complex POnAnRwyr 10 Main Characteristics of language 1. Language is verbal, vocal: Language is sound Language is an organization of sounds, of vocal symbols - the sc.’ from the mouth with the help of various organs of speech to convey some meaningful message. It also means that speech is primary to writing. There are several languages because they are spoken. Music and singing also employ vocal sounds, but they are not languages. Language is systematic verbal symbolism; it makes use of verbal elements such as sound, words. and phrases, which are arranged in certain ways to make sentences. Language is vacal in as much as it is made up of sounds which can be produced by the organs of speech. itpsiiartenglishnates,cor/202006/1410-mai-feature-cr-characerisice-ot- language! snoarg, 544 PM 10 Main Fextures Or Characteristics of language » Smart English Notes 2. Language is a means of communication Language is the most powerful, convenient and permanent me communication. Non-| stics symbols such as expressive various kinds, traffic lights, road things as well as shortha braille alphabets, the symbols of mathematics and logic, etc. are also means of communication, yet they 2 as language is. Language is the best means of self-expression. It is the guage that s express their thoughts, desires, emotions it that they store knowledge, t on to another, from id are feelin thre experience fro the ledge and ivities in the v ied on through or by it. It is through ft it that humans interact. It is lan fut re together. Iseocen ve enor eel a oe Conn sitavel ean ee orchard Vn onrarey Perth ES =a os Ce ary cra itpsisartenglishnates,c/202006/1410-main-fatires-cr-charaterisics-cl-languagel dumb and so flexible, comprehensive, perfect and extensive the ther. most of again that yokes the present, the past and the ano‘1422, 544 PM. 10 Main Feaures Or Charactorstes of language » Smart English Notes 3. Language is a social phenomenon Language is a set of conventional communicative signals used by humans for communication in a community. Language in this sense is a possession of a social group, comprising an indispensable set of rules which permits its members to relate ta each other; it is a social institution. Language exists in society; it is a means of nourishing and developing culture and establishing human relations. It is a member of society that a human being acquires a language. We learn not born with an instinct to learn a particular language- English, Hindi, Russian, Bengali, Chinese, Tamil, or French, We learn a language as members of the saciety using that lanquage, or because we want to understand that society or, to be understood by that speech-community. If a language is not used in any society it dies out. Language is thus a social event. It can be described only if we know all about the people who are involved in it, their personalities, their beliefs, attitudes, knowledge of the world, relationship to each other, their social status, what activity they are engaged in what they are talking about, what has gone before linguistically and non-linguistically, what happens after, what they are and host of other facts about them and the situation they are placed in. 4. Language is arbitrary By the arbitrariness of language, we mean that there is no inherent ar logical relation or similarity between any given feature of language andi askaquestion 1% ? is entirely arbitrary, that there is no direct, necessary connection between the Nature of things or ideas the language deals with, and the linguistics unites are. combinations by which these things or ideas are expressed. There is no reason why the four-legged domestic animals should be called Dog in English, Kutta in Hindi, Kukkur in Sanskrit, Kutta in Telugu, Kukur in Bengali, Chien in French, hund in German, Kalb in Arabic and so on, That those particular words that imitate the sounds of there referents, for example- buzz, hiss, hum, bang in English and Kal- itpsiiartenglishnates,cor/202006/1410-mai-feature-cr-characerisice-ot- language! ano1322, 544PM 10Main Features Or Characterstes of lrguage » Smart English Notes Kal in Hindi, may seem to invalidate this statement, but such words are comparatively few in different languages, and the accuracy of the limitation depends on the sounds available in the language. Furthermore, these are a variation in different languages of the world and have no uniformity. READ ALSO: Essay on Earthquake for Students and Children in English. 5, Language is non-instinctive, conventional no language was created in a day out of a mutually agreed-upon formula by a group of humans. Language is the outcome of evolution and convention. Each generation transmits this convention on to the next, Like all human institutions languages also change and die, grow and expand. Every language then is a conventional community, It is non-instinctive because it is acquired by human beings. Nobody gets a language an innate ability to acquire language. Animals inherit their system of communication by heredity, humans do not. 6. Language is symbolic The symbolism of language is a necessary consequence of the feature of arbitrariness discussed above. A symbol stands for something else; it is something that serves as a substitute. Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols. For concepts, things ideas, objects etc. we have sounds seinen! 2 symbols. the language uses words essentially as symbols and not as signs (eg in.” Mats.) for the concepts represented by them. + 7. Language is systematic Although the language is symbolic, yet its symbols are arranged in a particular system, All languages have their system of arrangements. Though symbols in itpsiiartenglishnates,com/202006/1410-main-feature-cr-characerisice-ot- language! ano1322, 544PM 10Main Features Or Characterstes of lrguage » Smart English Notes each human language are finite, they can be arranged infinity; that is to say, we can produce an infinite set of sentences by a finite set af symbols. Every language is a system of systems. All languages have a phonological and grammatical system we have morphological and syntactic systems, and within these two sub-systems, we have several other systems such as those of plural, of mood, of aspect, of tense, etc. By “systematic” we also mean the following: the speakers of language use only certain combinations, Thus although the sounds b and z occur in English, There is no word in English which begins with bz. Similarly, we can say that the beautiful girl chased the brown dog is a sentence of English, but the edfulauti girl chased the brown dag is not. Thus we conclude that all languages, though linear in their visual manifestation, have a dual system of sound and meaning. In other words, Language is systematic composition or arrangement of linguistic which correlate word and meaning. Each language, therefore, can be described as a special system, suitable for conveying the message within its own framework of structure and meaning and having very little direct physical relation to the meanings or acts which it involves. it should also be remembered that language is meaningful. READ ALSO: Modal Verbs: Characteristics, Usage Rules and Worksheets 8. Language is unique, creative, complex and modi ascaquestion Language is a unique phenomenon of the earth. Other planets do not seem to have any language, although this fact may be invalidated if we happen to discov. a talking generation on any other planet. but so far there is no evidence of the presence of language on the moon, Each language is unique in its own sense. By this, we do not mean that language do not have any similarities or universals. itpsiiartenglishnates,com/202006/1410-mai-feature-cr-characterisice-ot- language! 101322, 544PM 10Main Features Or Characterstes of lrguage » Sart English Notes Despite there common features and language universals, each language has its peculiarities and distinct features. language has creativity and productivity. The structural elements of human language can be combined to produce new utterances, which neither the speaker nor his hearers may ever have made or heard before any listener, yet which both sides understand without difficulty, language changes according to the needs of society. Old English is different from modern English. 9. Language is human and structurally complex No species other than humans has been endowed with language. Animals cannot acquire human language because of its complex structure and their physical inadequacies. Animals do not have the type of brain which the human beings possess and their articulatory organs are also very much different from those of human beings. Furthermore, any system of animals communication does not make use of the quality of features, that is, of concurrent systems of sound and meaning. Human language is open-ended, extendable and modifiable whereas the animal language is not. 3 # characteristics of language _# Features of language AskaQuestion — “D oreous wr + itpsiiartenglishnates,cor/202006/1410-mai-feature-cr-characerisice-ot- language! a0‘1422, 544 PM. 10 Main Features Or Charactorstes of language » Smart English Notes You May Also Like Gulliver's Travels — Questions Answers And MCQs Active And Passive Voice in English Chart A Birthday By Christina Rossetti: Summary and Questions England in 1819 by P. B. 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