Language as a tool of communication: How it reveals cultural reality and forms our spirit

Abstract

A language is a means of communication by which man, in a different way in each community, analyses his experiences into units that have their semantic content and a phonetic expression, the moments. This phonetic expression is in turn divided into distinctive, consecutive units, the phonemes, which occur in a certain number in each language and whose nature and mutual relationship also vary from language to language. This implies that we use the term language solely to designate a means of communication that id double structured and manifested in sound, that apart from this common basis, nothing in the true sense belongs to language as a system that could not be different from one language to another; it is in this sense that it is to be understood when it is said that linguistic facts are arbitrary.