Humans and Language

Language Science 1. Humans and Language.

Let's learn about 'Humans and Language' from the perspectives of communication, learning, and society.

Communication

Often, if we find someone who is lost in thought or talking to himself to be strange, we may all be strange people, Language is certainly a tool to convey thoughts, but no one uses it solely as a tool to convey their thoughts to others. In this way, in terms of thinking and communicaiton, language can be interpreted as a physical and wireless 'connection' of our 'thoughts'. In addition, Language is based on a symbol system. A symbol system is created so that is can be shared with others according to the rules of 'meaning, phonology, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics'. There are some non-verbal aspects, but mostly this is how we interact.

Leaning

Language also plays an important role in learning and education. In the process of learning language, we develop our cognitive and thinking skills, and use these to participate more actively in learning and education.

Society

Language is very socially connected. Unlike other species, humans have already been able to speak various language due to the development of speech ability through biological decision. Language is a means of connecting our thoughts and information, and has social significance in that it creates 'trends' and 'culture'.

We looked at 'Humans and Language' as broadly as possible. 

Next time, we will talk from the perspective of 'communication' mentioned above.