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WHAT IS LANGUAGE?
Language is so fundamental to human life that is hard to imagine what
life would be like without it, but like humans animals have a system of
communication wich allows them to interact with each other in their
enviromet while bath animals and humans use systems of
communication but the use of complex symbols and an oral system is
unique to humans.
Humans are able to exchange or express knowledges, opinions,
wishes, feelings, etc. They can use diferrent ways to express
themselves, the communication between humans come changing
through time because they are learning different systems of
communication in wich the linguistic is the most important part.
In the humans communication exist two forms to express something…
The first one is when you sent a many numbers of signals that are not
intentional but still carry meaning, and is called: informative signals, the
second one is when you sent or want to communicate something this
are: communicative signals; humans must use language to think and
talk.
Humans language have some properties tan animals doesn’t have like:
displacement, arbitrariness, productivity, cultural transmission, duality
and communication; humans can refer to past and future time while
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