Language, Signs, and Communication Functions
Language and Communication
Language is the power humans have to communicate through shared symbols and express thought. Language is a structured system of verbal and combination rules common to a community of speakers. Speech is the concrete realization of a language by speakers in a specific communicative situation. The linguistic norm is the set of rules and accepted uses by speakers of a language as exemplary ways of speaking.
Varieties of Language
Situational varieties: Due to the communicative
Read MoreUnderstanding Paragraphs: Structure, Types, and Writing Techniques
A paragraph is a unit of speech in written text that expresses an idea or an argument, or reproduces the words of a speaker. It consists of a set of sentences that have some thematic unity or that, without one, are set together. A component of the text in its appearance, it begins with a capital letter and ends at a stop. It consists of several related sentences on the same subtopic, one of which expresses the main idea.
Main Idea
A paragraph consists of a main clause that can be easily distinguished
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