ENGL306A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Signify, Dionysius Thrax, Stoicism
15 Jan 2018
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The system of spoken or written communication used by a particular country, people, community, etc. , typically consisting of words used within a regular grammatical and syntactic structure. Language in its entirety has many different and disparate aspects. It lies astride the boundaries separating various domains. It is at the same time physical, physiological, and psychological. It belongs both to the individual and to society. - ferdinand de saussure. Rather, one might say that it is the viewpoint aopted which creates the object. - de saussure. Linguistics is not the study of language as such: because there is no language as such , therefore viewpoint creates the object. The study of language changes as our sense or definition of language changes, and as our view of human society and human personality changes: but, to make things worse, the object itself also changes. Roman alphabet: the same written alphabet can bear a variety of languages (roman alphabet: english,
