What is language?

1.- It's the primary means of communication among human beings consisted in a structured system of symbols and sounds.

• communication

• language

• speech

2.- Context, message, common code, addresser, addressee, and channel are.........

• Properties of language

• Characteristics of language

• Elements of communication

3.- It is used whenever the addresser and the addressee need to check whether they use the same code and when the language is used to speak about language.

• Metalingual

• Conative

• Phatic

4.- It establishes, prolongs or discontinues the communication. Its purpose is to know whether the channel works or whether the contact is still there. Our purpose in this function is first to maintain contact with the person we are talking to.

• Phatic

• Metalingual

• Emotive

5.- Its main objective is to give greater emphasis to the information that is transmitted and embellish the message so that its impact is greater.

• Conative

• Referential

• Poetic

6.- Shows things or facts, it is the most obvious function of language.

• Poetic

• Referential

• Conative

7.- It is the ability to express our thoughts and emotions by articulate sounds.

• language

• speech

• voice

8.- They are some kind of features that are unlikely to be found in the languages of other living creatures.

• Sounds

• Language properties

• Gestures

9.- This property allows us to communicate about those events that are currently absent from the environment . It allows us to make up stories and think about both the past and the future.

• Arbitrariness

• Displacement

• Productivity

10.- Each sound is treated as a discrete unit, and the occurrence of one sound instead of the other leads to a misuse of language.

• Productivity

• Displacement

• Discretness