LANGUAGE IS COMMUNICATION

Section A: Language is communication



Section A: Language is communication

Introduction

Communication is a basic human need and an important condition for the subjective experience of quality in life. This essay will be exploring the importance of language in communication processes, which will state, the point that language is communication. Communication is a process of sending and receiving messages with some meaning attached to it. The main elements of a communication process include the sender as a source, communication medium and a receiver (Nowak & Krakauer, 1999: 8028). The sender encodes a meaningful message; the receiver decodes the message and perceives it. After receiving the message, it depends on the receiver whether he/ she responds to it or not. The medium of communication is a way through which messages are communicated from one person to another. For conveying messages, the role of language cannot is denied. Language is the key element which makes the message understandable by the receiver who receives the message. The main theme of this paper is to discuss “language is communication”. We will be discussing, how the language constitutes communication, and what is language? What is Language For? What are language varieties and appropriateness of the language?

Discussion

It is important to understand that when two people communicate with each other, two things are to be considered. Firstly, the communication needs to be accurate. Secondly, when an effective communication occurs, it means that the receiver has successfully perceived the message in the right way (Duursma, 2002: 30). These two issues have led to two different incidents in the workplace in which the outcome was both negative and positive. Language is commonly used to transmit the information. There are various ways available to transmit communication by means of language they are; speaking, listening, writing, reading, and sign language or body language.

Humans are the only species in the world that are using language to communicate with each other. Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure of human communication (initially discovered by Paul Grice) to the especially cooperative structure of human, (as opposed to other primate) social interaction. Tomasello argues that human cooperative communication rests on a psychological infrastructure of shared intentionality (joint attention, common ground), evolved originally for collaboration and culture (Nowak & Komarova, 2001: 114). The basic motives of the infrastructure are helping and sharing: humans communicate to request help, inform others of things helpfully, and share attitudes as a way of bonding within the ethnic group.

What is language?

Language is used to represent objects, actions, or abstract concepts with the characters. The set of characters in the language is open. This follows from the fact that sign language is all text that has significance (Law & Boyle, 1998: 91). Unit using the language can be used to systems that create an infinite number of new characters, including those that were never previously ...