Question

Language is ...............

1. Symbolic
2. Semantic
3. Generative
4. Structured

• A. 4 only
• B. 3 only
• C. 1, 4
• D. All of these

Answer 1

Answer:

D. All of these

• Any language learner knows that language is a symbolic system, that is, a semiotic system made up of linguistic signs or symbols that in combination with other signs forms a code that one Learns to manipulate in order to make meaning.
• Semantics is the study of the meaning of words and sentences it uses the relations of linguistic farms to non - linguistic concepts and mental representations to explain how sentences are understood by native speakers.
• Generative is used to describe linguistic theories for models which are based on the idea that a single set of rules can explain how all the possible sentences of a language are formed
• Language is a series of codes made up of words and rules that allow humans to communicate