without instruction. Language operates by rules.?All Languages have three ponents; a sound system, a system of lexicogrammarr and a system of semantics.?Everyone speaks a dialect.Р1.1 Why We Study Language?РLanguage slowly changes.Р Speakers of all Languages employ a range of styles and a set of jargons.РLanguages are intimately related to the societies and individuals that use them.РWriting is derivative of speech.Р1.2 What is Language?РWebster’s New World Dictionary offers several most frequently used senses of the word “Language”?[1] ?(a) human speech; ?(b) the ability municate by this means;?(c) a system of vocal sounds binations of such sounds to which meaning is attributed, used for the expression munication of thoughts and feelings; ?(d) the written representation of such a system;
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