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Diverse Definitions and Perspectives on Language

Language, derived from the Latin word "Lingua," is described as a human method of communication using symbols by various scholars like Edward Sapir and Noam Chomsky. It serves as an institution for human interaction through spoken or arbitrary symbols, emphasizing extensibility and modifiability. The historical link between language and the tongue in multiple languages underlines the significance of spoken languages in human communication.

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Diverse Definitions and Perspectives on Language

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  1. LESSON ONE WHAT IS LANGUAGE?

  2. HUNDREDS OF DEFINITIONS EACH DEFINES LANGUAGE FROM ITS OWN PERSPECTIVE

  3. THE WORD ETYMOLOGY:  The English word language derives from Latin « Lingua » = "language, tongue". This metaphoric relation between language and the tongue exists in many languages (eg: Arabic- ناسللا) and testifies to the historical prominence of spoken languages.

  4. (1921) « Language is purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntary produced symbols ».Edward Sapir

  5. C.HALL (1968) IN ESSAY ON LANGUAGE  « Language is the institution whereby humans communicate and interact with each other, by means of habitually used-oral-auditory or arbitrary symbols ».

  6. (1957) : « From now on , I’ll consider language to be a set of sentences each finite in length and constructed out of the finite set of elements ». Noam Chomsky

  7.  5-Robins(1979) : a)- Extensibility  b)-Modifiability (adaptability) 

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