Using Language for Communicative Purposes

Pages:45-47
Kamal Rani (Department of English, Vaish College, Rohtak, Haryana)

The language word itself comes from the Latin; ‘Lingua’ and its original meaning is that ‘which is produced with the tongue’. Language is a media for communication. It is a well-known fact that communication is impossible in the absence of the language. Language is a verbal medium for expression or communicating ideas, feelings experiences and realizations. It requires four basic skill-speaking, writing, reading and listening. It is one of the unique possessions of man. Infact it is language which distinguishes a man from an animal. Without language we cannot express ourselves to others. It is language which provides us an outlet for our feelings, ideas, experiences or whatever is in our mind. Man is a social being and he wants to convey his own views and ideas to others. It is used for verbal interaction. It means that language does not exist in a vacuum. Infact, it gives rise to society and the society in turn reshapes and remodels the language according to its needs and desires. Both the language and society are deeply related with each other. Human society is unthinkable without language. Language is of two kinds, verbal language and non-verbal language. Verbal language is used for expressing ideas and experiences. Non-verbal language is also known as body language. The realizations of person are expressed through body language rather then verbal language. It is the facial expressions language consists of words which produce meaningful sound. Phonemes and morphemes are two important aspects of any verbal language. The words have their definite structure (morphemes) and create meaningful sound to communicate ideas and experiences. Language is a divine gift of God to man only. So it is an integral part of human life. It is primarily an instrument of communication among human beings in a communication. Actually language works as a soul for communicative purposes. Without this human society cannot exi9st. Language emerges from meaningful sounds. It includes all those verbal actions of human beings that are related to communication of ideas.