Language

characterization

3rd meeting
Language is a communication tool that people use to
interact with each other. By mastering the language
of humans can know the content of the world
through science and new knowledge and had never
imagined before.
Human language is very complex where he is based
on a set of rules relating to the symbols and
meanings,
 There are many characteristics of language:
1. Language as a system
System means good arrangement in language.
Example :
1) Don’t make me confuse baby
2) * confuse me baby make don’t
The system of language must be learned, and
subsystem of linguistics are:
phon > phonem > morphem > word > phrase >
clause > sentence > discourse
2. Language as a symbol
If we discuss about our National flag “Red and White”
Red means brave, angry, strong
White means clean, pure, virgin
In language, WORD as a symbol
SOUND as a verbal communication
Example: What is HORSE ?? * an animal * has a long tail
* has 4 legs * runs quickly

paard (dutch language)

HORSE jaran (java)
kuda (indonesia), kudo (padang)
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 The characterictics of language

3. Language as a sound
SOUND ===== sound that produced by human speech
organ
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ORAL
4. Language as an arbitrary: (changing, mana suka)
CAT ===== we don’t know why this animal can be
symbolized by sound [kæt] not ATC
TAC

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5. Language is conventional 6. Language is productive

It means that the society It means that although the

must obey the signifier language is limit, but this
limit can be made to unlimited
and signified
language by adding
AFFIX, SUFFIX, PREFIX

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7. Language is unique
Unique means that language has specific characteristics than other
language, example: stress, intonation, and pitch.

8. Language is universal
It means that there are many similar characteristics of every
language in the world.
* Vowel and consonants
* Noun
* Verb
* Subject etc

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9. Language is dynamic
# human always produced and used
the language.
# language always changing, not
static.
# language change can happen to
all aspects such as phonology,
morphology, syntax, semantic or
lexicon.
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10. Language is used by human
# human used language only.
# animal didn’t make a language,
if we see that animal can talk
like a parrot because it was
trained or imitate that ever their
listening, it could not make a new
or variation sentence.
# human can tells about their last
experience, but animal can not do
that.
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