Many definitions of language have been proposed. Henry Sweet, an English phonetician and language scholar, stated: “Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.” The American linguists Bernard Bloch and George L. Trager formulated the following definition: “A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates.” Any succinct definition of language makes a number of presuppositions and begs a number of questions. The first, for example, puts excessive weight on “thought,” and the second uses “arbitrary” in a specialized, though legitimate, way.
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msfjdkjv jdalalz Many definitions of language HJksfdb
msfjdkjv jdalalz Many definitions of language HJksfdb
msfjdkjv jdalalz Many definitions of language HJksfdb
msfjdkjv jdalalz Many definitions of language HJksfdb
msfjdkjv jdalalz Many definitions of language HJksfdb
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