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Sapir |
"Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas,emotions and desires by means od voluntarily prouced symbols" |
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Robins ( 1979) |
Does not give a formal definition :he rightly points out that such definitions "tend to be trivial and uninformative ,unless they suppose ...some general theory of language and of linguistic analysis" |
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Bloch&trager |
In their outline of linguistic analysis,they wrote "A language Is a system of arbitrary vocal symbol by means of which a social groups co-operate." |
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Hall |
In this essay on language (1968),tells us that language is "the Institution whereby humans communicate and Interact with each other by means of habitually used oral - auditory arbitrary symbols" |
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Noam chmosky |
"From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) od sentences ,each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements syntactic structure |
