Concepts of Language and Speech

Concepts:

1. Language is the medium through which people communicate their ideas, and it inevitably has an impact on politics, economics and society, science and technology, and even culture itself. Language as a cultural phenomenon is constantly evolving, and its present-day spatial distribution is the result of past developments. The world's languages are divided into language families on the basis of the similarities and origins of their phonological, grammatical and lexical features***. Each language family includes a varying number of language varieties, and these language families and varieties have a certain geographical distribution area, with which many cultural characteristics are closely related.

Language is a complex system of symbols composed of vocabulary in accordance with a certain grammar, which includes a phonetic system, a vocabulary system and a grammar system. Language is a communication tool unique to human beings, which arises and develops with human society.

2. The process by which people use language to communicate is called speech. Language and speech are two different concepts. Language is a social phenomenon, the object of linguistic research; speech is a psychological phenomenon, the object of psychological research. Speech refers to people's use of language, which has two meanings: first, it refers to the process of speaking and writing, which is a kind of human behavior called speech activity, also called speech act; second, it refers to the words that people say and the things that they write, also called speech works.

Extended Information

Language Definition

In terms of definition, language is a sound (image) instruction with a uniform standard of encoding and decoding developed between biological kind due to the need for communication. Substantive DefinitionLanguage is a system of instructions with sound/symbols as the material shell and meaning as the connotation, consisting of vocabulary and grammar and capable of expressing human thought. Speech, gestures, and expressions are the embodiment of language in the human body, and written symbols are the visual symbols of language.

The meaning of speech

The linguistic term "speech" is a set of concepts opposite to "language".

Language is a social **** communication tool, so it is solid, with a relatively static state. Speech, on the other hand, is the process and result of people's use of language as a tool of communication, and is freely combined, with a relative state of motion.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Language

Baidu Encyclopedia-Speech