Just as air is all around us, we live in the world of words. Hardly any moment passes without someone talking, reading or writing. Indeed, language is most essential means of communication that only the human race possesses. It can be defined as verbal, physical, biologically innate and a basic form of communication.
We use language to express inner thoughts and emotion, make sense of complex and abstract thought, to learn to communicate with others, to fulfill our needs, as well as to establish and maintain our culture. For Bloch (2008), language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates. To quote Sapir (1921), it is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of a system of voluntarily produced symbols. Coleridge (2013) sees language as the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
We, mostly in all of our activities like thinking, praying, reading, writing, meditating, etc., use language. Thus, it can be taken as a medium of thought, a vehicle for literary expression, a social institution and a catalyst for nation building. It is a distinctive phenomenon, which makes human beings superior to all the species on the earth. In this regard, significance of language becomes all the more evident with the raise of civilization.
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