For the first week, we studied about the language and communication. English is considered something called the lingua franca, the world's first. This basically means that the language of English is something that is basically an international language of people not speaking a mother tongue. So, what do people know when they know a language? Some of them looking easy to say it, but it more than that. When people know a language, they must know how speech sounds relate to meanings. When speaking, we produce sounds and our hearers hear sound. Hence, language is a code that allows us to represent thoughts and ideas by means of sound/letters. This code has complex symbols with internal structure which is rule-governed.
Language is a Code. Which mean A code for conveying a great variety of information.
E.g. A “Flower” can easily called “Bungai” in Iban.
Besides that, language are Linguistics symbols that have function and form.
E.g. Udin runs.
Language units also constructed according to rules and language is specifically human. In addition, language use is creative and its constrained by culture.
After all, English is something of a beautiful language, and people around the world have been studying it for a number of years for them to learn it as best as they possibly can.
So, i'll try with my best to get it..tq.
