Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Dec. 2008
It is known by the term language to any code semiotic of formal structure and that supposes for its use the existence of a context of use and certain principles.
As there are several contexts, this means that there are also different languages. Thus we have human language, animal language and the so-called formal languages. The first is the one that all human beings use to communicate, understand and learn, is based on linguistic signs. In the case of animals, their language is articulated on a series of sound, olfactory and visuals that act as linguistic signs in this case and that obviously each keep a referent or meaning. And the last case that we proposed, the formal ones, are those constructions made by human beings to be used in certain disciplines such as math and that share structures with human language, for which they will allow to be understood and analyzed by many signs that human language displays.
Obviously, and as can be seen from the distinction set out in the
paragraph previous, human language is a system of communication super specialized and that of course exceeds in quantity and quality to the others that we mention, then, language, in human terms, is understood as a capacity or faculty that allows us, as we said above, to abstract ourselves, communicate and conceptualize.Within language they distinguish, on the one hand, language and on the other the speech. The language or language is also that code that will be shared by all the members of a particular community, while speech is the materialization of that code or model that each representative of that community, individually, puts into practice when it must communicate something. You can do it through acts of speech or in writing.
Although of course, there are always exceptions to the rule, in the case of languages or languages, it is, for example, that in a city like the Italian Milan, Italian is obviously spoken, as long as and there are also people who communicate, in addition to the language, with the so-called dialects, Milanese, in the case that concerns us and who sometimes are far from the language itself, because they use Some traits phonic and syntactic, among others, that are typical of a region.
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