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This document discusses communication, language, and their relationship to speech. It defines communication as a dual process of transmitting messages between people that influences their behavior. Language is described as the principal means humans use to communicate, with properties including being systematic, arbitrary, rule-governed, and generative. Speech is identified as one mode of communication, using language to convey meaning through vocalization, while communication is a broader term that can involve both verbal and non-verbal elements.

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1) Communication and Language

This document discusses communication, language, and their relationship to speech. It defines communication as a dual process of transmitting messages between people that influences their behavior. Language is described as the principal means humans use to communicate, with properties including being systematic, arbitrary, rule-governed, and generative. Speech is identified as one mode of communication, using language to convey meaning through vocalization, while communication is a broader term that can involve both verbal and non-verbal elements.

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Communication

and Language
UNIT I

By: DANTE M. HALLASGO

English 103 – Speech and Oral


Communication
Objectives:
• State the definition of communication;
• State the importance of communication;
• Explain the importance and purpose of
language in communication;
• Identify the characteristics of language,
and
• Discuss the relationships of Speech,
Language and Communication
How many among you can let a day
without talking to any body?

Can you stand being


uncommunicative for sometime?

Why can’t we help but talk?

What is there in communication that


we cannot live without?
What is Communication?
It is the dual or two-way process
of transmitting messages from one
person to another. It is the symbolic
interaction between two or more
people that influences each other’s
behaviour. With it, not only does
one make his/her own self
understood, s/he also get to
understand others.
Importance of Communication
How important communication is to
us cannot be over-emphasized. We
simply cannot communicate.

“If all my possessions were to be


taken from me with one exception, I
would choose to keep the power of
communication, for it I would regain all
the others. – Daniel Webster
Language
Language, the principal means used by human
beings to communicate with one another.
Language is primarily spoken, although it can be
transferred to other media, such as writing. If the
spoken means of communication is unavailable,
as may be the case among the deaf, visual means
such as sign language can be used. A prominent
characteristic of language is that the relation
between a linguistic sign and its meaning is
arbitrary: There is no reason other than
convention among speakers of English that a dog
should be called dog, and indeed other languages
have different names (for example, Spanish perro,
Russian sobaka, Japanese inu).
Language
Language on the other hand, is
our most effective medium of
communication. It has but one
purpose: to serve as the code for the
transmission of messages between
and among people. By virtue of
convention or social agreement,
language thus exist as a tool used in
expressing ideas and feelings to
achieve understanding.
Properties or Characteristics of
Language
It is systematic
Language is a highly organized
system in which each unit plays
an important part, which is
related to other parts, and which
when put together constitute a
whole.
It is arbitrary
There is no necessary
connection between the sounds
people use and the objects to
which these sounds refer. The
relationship between meaning and
the symbols employed is a matter
of convention.
It is rule-governed.
While the relationship between meaning
and symbols used is an arbitrary one, the
arrangement of the symbols in relation to
one another in an utterance is not arbitrary.
This feature of language demonstrates that
there are underlying rules or patterns that
occur frequently. These rule that govern
the use of language are embodied in what
is called the grammar of language.
It has a dual structure

Language is a system
consisting of two subsystems: the
system of sounds and the system
of meaning.
It is generative
This refers to the speaker’s
ability to understand and produce
any number of sentences /
utterances in in the native tongue
by recursion or by relativisation.
That makes language creative and
productive.
It is socially learned behavior

It is a skill acquired as one


grows up in society. It is culturally
transmitted. A speaker learns the
language to which he is exposed.
It is a social interactive tool

Language cannot be
considered without
communication because it is the
very reason for its existence. It is
a shared code that enables its
users to transmit feelings, ideas
and desires to one another
because they want to
communicate
RELATIONSHIPS OF SPEECH,
LANGUAGE AND
COMMUNICATION
Communication
Communication is a broad term for
two-way dynamic process of message
transmission. It embraces both verbal
and non-verbal aspects. The verbal
includes the modes, which are:
signing, reading and writing and
speaking & listening. The non-verbal
comprises the extra-linguistic
elements, such as the paralinguistic,
metalinguistic and nonlinguistic.
Speech and Language
Speech and language are only a portion
of the larger process of communication.
Language is the medium or vehicle
through which messages are sent and
received while speech is one of its modes.
It is the verbal means of communicating or
conveying meaning. More specifically,
speech is the process of shaping into
words the sound of the voice and energy
of the breath, by means of the speech
organs.

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