1. Language, a way to communicate ideas comprehensibly from one person to another in such a way that the other will be able to act exactly accordingly. The transportation of such ideas could be acquired by either verbal expression, signing in alphabet (written word) and perhaps if we can imagine two parties with different tongue, signing with gestures and images. [SignGenius.com]
2. A system of communication that enables humans to cooperate.
This definition stresses the social functions of language and the fact that humans use it to express themselves and to manipulate objects in their environment.
3. Definition from The American Heritage Dictionary of The English Language [Answer.com]
· Communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols.
· Such a system including its rules for combining its components, such as words.
· Such a system used by nation, people, or other distinct community; often contrasted with dialect.
· A system of signs, symbols, gestures, or rules used in communicating; the language of algebra.
4. Language, the spesifically human capasity for acquiring and using complex system of communication, or to a spesific instance of such a system of complex communication. [Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia]
5. Noam Chomsky, define language as a particular set of sentences that can be generated from a particular set of rules.
6. Language, a system of objects or symbols, such as sounds or character sequences, that can be combined in various ways following a set of rules, especially to communicate thoughts, feelings, or instructions.
7. Language, the set of patterns or structures produced by such a system.
8. Languages, the particular set of speech norms of a particular community, are also a part of the larger culture of the community that speak them. Humans use language as a way of signalling identity with one cultural group and difference from others.
9. Language, a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols. [Websters’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University]
10. Language, system of conventional spoken or written symbols used by people in a shared culture to communicate with each other, [Britannica Concise Encyclopedia]
11. Language means of conveying or communicating ideas; spesifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth. [The Collaborative International Dictionary of English]
12. Language, a human system of communication that uses arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols. [About.com: Grammar and Composition]
13. Ferdinand de Saussure argues that language is a structured system of arbitray signs. On the other hand, symbols are not arbitrary. A symbol may be a signifier, but in contrast to a sign, a symbol is never completely arbitrary. A symbol has a rational relationship with what is signified.
From those definitions, i’ll explain one of them,:
“Language is any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth.” [The Collaborative International Dictionary of English]
· Communicating ideas : to share information with others by speaking, writing, moving your body or using other signals of our ideas.
· Specifically : for a particular reason, purpose, etc.
· Human speech: humans use language as a way of signaling identity with one cultural group and difference with others.example : when the Javanese people met each other in the morning they give greeting with :” sugeng enjang”. Instead Indonesian said : “ selamat pagi”. And in English is : “ Good Morning”.
· The expression ideas by voice, sounds, expressive of thought : humans use the voice, sounds, to deliver what they are thinking about that is packed in ‘language’.
· Articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth: humans use the organs of the throat and mouth as the way to deliver the sound so that can produce language.
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