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Many people say language is the expression of ideas, and in certain way it is that, but it is more than ideas. It requires of complex processes, and it is influenced by external and internal factors which make it the main form of communication for human beings.
Initially, language was born such as a way to say something, express ideas, emotions, views, needs and other important elements of life. So that, language can sometimes be considered as an empirical and not a biological part of people. According to this issue Searle (2006) says, "few contemporary and recent philosophers of language attempt to treat language as a natural extension of non-linguistic biological capacities. Language is not seen as continuous with, nor as an extension of, the rest of our specifically human biological inheritance." In order to understand what this author said, we cannot separate the empirical from the biological form because they are the essential parts of the language.
In the same order of ideas, and taking some points from Searle, he talks about pre-linguistic and linguistic capacities. The first are related to those things we can express through movements, sounds, body language, or even our face, but without say any word. An example of this are the animals, as they do not have the ability to develop a structured linguistic system. The second, implies more complicated actions and the capacity to create and develop an organized form of communication and meanings, such as the language that humans have established.
Nowadays, the researches and studies about this issue are huge and continuous. We cannot say that all about language is completely said, because we have much road to walk through in this specific area.
By: Susana Bello (2010)
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