![]() ![]() ![]() The second is that it has no independent physical entity of its own, but consists merely of several types of sounds mutually exchanged by man living in a community. The first is that language and culture are closely knitted and that it is a social product. To study language, therefore, we must bear in mind a few important facts. Schlauch regards it as ‘ a fundamental means of preserving, transmuting and continuously enriching the achievements of human culture.’ without which social action is impossible’.Ī.S.Diamond characterizes it as ‘the embodiment of all the advances in thought of all our human ancestors-a diary of their day-to-day thoughts’.Īnd lastly, M. Malinowski takes it as ‘the necessary means of communication…. ![]() Sayce equates it with ‘significant sound, the outward embodiment and expression, however imperfect, of thought’. Tylor thinks of it in terms of ‘outward manifestations of inward workings of the mind’. ![]()
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