From the internal structure, language is a symbol system combining sound and meaning.
Language production:
1, the generation of language means that people speak or write their own thoughts through the activities of language organs or hands, which includes two forms: speaking and writing. The units of language production mainly include phonemes, syllables, morphemes, words, phrases and sentences.
2. Language production can be divided into different stages. Such as: construction stage: determine the ideas to be expressed according to the purpose; Transformation stage: using syntactic rules to transform ideas into language forms; Implementation stage: information in language form is oral or written.
Extended data:
Use of language:
The function of language is mainly divided into two aspects: social function and thinking function, in which social function includes information transmission function and interpersonal interaction function.
Language is a tool of thinking and communication, which is closely related to thinking. It is the carrier, material shell and manifestation of thinking. Language is a command system, with sound/symbol as the material shell and semantic connotation as the meaning content. The combination of command and meaning is a system of vocabulary building materials and grammatical organization rules.
Language is a social phenomenon, the most important communication tool for human beings, the tool for the use of thinking logic and the exchange/transmission of information, and the carrier for reflecting human cognitive achievements. Language has stability (hereditary/infinite communication ability, which can be preserved by the public under certain conditions) and nationality (species).
Language is the creation of human beings, and only human beings have real language. Many animals also make sounds to express their feelings or convey information in groups, but these are just fixed procedures and cannot be changed at will.
Only human beings can combine meaningless sounds into meaningful language units in various ways, and then combine a large number of independent language units into language sentences in various ways to express infinitely changing meanings in infinitely changing forms.
After human beings created language, they also created words. Words are visual forms of language. Writing breaks through the limitation of spoken language in space and time and can play a greater role.