WHAT IS LANGUAGE? IT’S IMPORTANCE IN OUR LIFE. IS LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE DIFFICULT?
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In the first place, language serves for the expression of content: it has a representational, or, as I would prefer to call it, an ideational function. It is through this function that speaker or writer embodies in language his experience of the phenomena of the real world; and this includes his experience of the internal world of the real world of his own consciousness: his reactions, cognitions, and perceptions, and also his linguistic acts of speaking and understanding.Abstract
Language is the highest achievement of human mind. It is what separates us from the animal kingdom. It is the basis of thought because it contains the symbols of thought.
We want to go places and do things, own all sorts of gadgets that we do not absolutely need, and when we sit down to take it easy we want to talk. Rights and property, social position, special talents and virtues, and above all our ideas, are what we live for. We have gone off on a tangent that takes us far away from the mere biological cycle that animal generations accomplish; and that is because we can use not only signs but symbols. (Exploring language, 54 – 55 p.)
References
Roger Fowler. Language in the news. – London and York, 1991. -254 p.
Gary Goshgarian. Exploring Language. - HarperCollins College Publishers, 1995. – 512 p.
Rodd Ellis. Understanding Second Language Acquisition. – Oxford University Press, 1985. – 327 p.
