Bloch And Trager Theory Of Language

Name: Chanikarn Apimuntagul (Gunn)

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Sapir

Language is a method which human used to communicate ideas, emotions, and desires. It included all form of communication from spoken language to other system of produced symbol. According to Sapir, language is purely human or in other word, referred only to human communication which is not instinctive.

Bloch & Trager

Form Bloch and Trager, language is a system of vocal symbol that social group used to cooperate. Language is not restrict only to human, but also included forms of communication other animals used within their groups for social cooperation. However, Bloch and Trager do not included written language into definition of language, they restrict language only to spoken language.

There are indefinite words that can be created from sounds of particular language in which those words are used to create sentences. As society is changing, words used by people change. Like what Robin emphasizes on some properties of language, its flexibility and adaptability, language should be able to change to satisfy the need of the users. As people communicate with each other, new words are created or existing words are being adapted either to fit with the situation or to make the communication easier. Moreover, in my opinion, another important component of language is the users of the language, namely, the sender and the receiver. Without the users, the language will lost as time passes by and finally will

Example is that when a children start learning to speak, they learn from what they hear, from the stimuli surrounded. The children often acquired the language that people around them use as their first language. These can be supported by the definition of language by Sapir and Hall which believe that language acquisition is a non-instinctive method. For example, according to The Telegraph.co.uk, there was a case that an Austrian children who do not speak words, instead produce their own animal-like noises because they were kept and raise in a cellar learning language by themselves from television. As a result, language they speak is only partly understandable to others. Moreover, language can be learnt which can be seen when people learn their second or third languages. By living with people who speak those languages, people can learn the languages