Class 001: Language and Communication

On the first lesson we were teaches about Language and Communication. What is language? What is communication?

Language

"Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. . . . We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse; we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard."
(Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger, 1987)

Communication

The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.
Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence.
Association; company.
Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection.
That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message.
Participation in the Lord's supper.
A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you.

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Communication is the activity of conveying information. Communication has been derived from the Latin word "communis", meaning to share. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that the communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality. The communication process is complete once the receiver has understood the message of the sender. Feedback is critical to effective communication between parties.
As a conclusion, language is very important among us because with language we can communicate with each other. Communication can be either verbal or non-verbal communication.




Non-Verbal communication is a communication where there are the process of sending and receiving information without using word or wordless. Non-verbal can be a writing, body language, symbols and etc. People sometimes use non-verbal communication without they knowing it. Non-verbal sometime can be useful in our daily life.



Verbal communication as we all know is a communication where information is transferred by the means of using language verbally or in another word, speaking. humans speaks everyday to transfer information from one to another.

Language and culture

From what that I have learned throughout the Madam Ira's Lesson I can say that language and culture were both related to each other. Every culture in this world have their own language which become one of their identity.

Language can be constrained by Culture and also can be affected by it. In Malaysia, English Language was affected by the multiculturalism in Malaysia. All these multicultural blend their language with English to create a new form of English Language. For example Manglish ( Malaysian English ) or Bahasa Rojak.