What is Language? How much do I need it? Language is an important element in a communication. It is the means use by the speaker to communicate with the receiver. The speaker passes the message or information to the receiver using the language that is common to both of them which they can both understand be it in a form of speaking, as a sign or in written form. Language is a language if at least two people have knowledge of it and at least two people can understand. I cannot say that I have a language that I was the one who invent it and that I alone know it. When Descartes said “Cogito ergo sum” which means “I think therefore I exist”, it can be a proof already that others exist because he used a language (Latin) which he knows that other people knows it. Same also when he said “Solus ipse” which means “I alone exist.” It could be better when he said it, he use words that no one can really understand or that the words he uses are alien to all people and no one really knows.
In communication, at least two or more subjects are involved. The subjects that are involved in the conversation are both speakers and receivers. Language bridges the speaker to the one he/she wants to pass the information with which is the receiver. Through common language used in communicating, it is easier for the both speakers and receivers to understand what each other are saying. I don’t mean that they will really get the point of the other or the understanding and arguments will meet. What I mean is that they will understand what the other is saying.
Language for me is a powerful tool we have as humans. Why? It is because it can control the feelings of others. We can make the other feel good by saying words of encouragement or affirming him/her. We can make the other feel bad, angry or destroy his/her disposition by saying bad, offending and hurtful words to him/her. Not all the time it can control others feelings but it can control the feelings of others if the receiver cannot manage and he/she will react according to his/her instincts. (Example: If I will hear my classmate backbite me, my immediate reaction is to feel bad and the feeling I have in me is anger. I cannot control what I feel.) Aside from controlling the feelings of others, through language we can also express our feelings. We can express it by speaking, writing and even in action. If we feel anything, of course there is a feeling in us that we can’t wait to express it. If we feel very happy, much fulfilled, very sad or very angry, we find others to talk to. In expressing our feelings, we feel relieved. There is a joy in us if others know what we feel and they understand what is going in us. What if all of us have our own different and unique language that no one except you yourself alone knows it? What will happen to us? Maybe there will be no understanding and it will be very hard to communicate. We can no longer express our feelings and we know how it feels that no one understands us, that no one can get our point. It’s “kabuluang and kailinit.”
Language is a great gift God had ever given us humans. Because we have feelings and we are rational beings, it is important that we can express it. God gave us feelings and knowledge but without language they will be useless because we cannot express them. The absence of the expression of feelings and knowledge is somehow the absence of freedom for we cannot speak out. If it will happen, maybe we will “burst.” Language can be used “functionally” and “relationally.” Yes we know that we cannot really express everything in language but we can also approximate. There are terms that no word can capture but let us be grateful because even though language is limited, it is already a big help in our way of living as emotional and rational beings. The best thing about language is that we can be in communion. We can relate with others, we can be a group, a community and WE can be ONE. Now you know how language is important for me. For you, how is language important? What is its meaning for you? What is its part in your life? For me, linggwahe ko, kinanglan ko gid!
In communication, at least two or more subjects are involved. The subjects that are involved in the conversation are both speakers and receivers. Language bridges the speaker to the one he/she wants to pass the information with which is the receiver. Through common language used in communicating, it is easier for the both speakers and receivers to understand what each other are saying. I don’t mean that they will really get the point of the other or the understanding and arguments will meet. What I mean is that they will understand what the other is saying.
Language for me is a powerful tool we have as humans. Why? It is because it can control the feelings of others. We can make the other feel good by saying words of encouragement or affirming him/her. We can make the other feel bad, angry or destroy his/her disposition by saying bad, offending and hurtful words to him/her. Not all the time it can control others feelings but it can control the feelings of others if the receiver cannot manage and he/she will react according to his/her instincts. (Example: If I will hear my classmate backbite me, my immediate reaction is to feel bad and the feeling I have in me is anger. I cannot control what I feel.) Aside from controlling the feelings of others, through language we can also express our feelings. We can express it by speaking, writing and even in action. If we feel anything, of course there is a feeling in us that we can’t wait to express it. If we feel very happy, much fulfilled, very sad or very angry, we find others to talk to. In expressing our feelings, we feel relieved. There is a joy in us if others know what we feel and they understand what is going in us. What if all of us have our own different and unique language that no one except you yourself alone knows it? What will happen to us? Maybe there will be no understanding and it will be very hard to communicate. We can no longer express our feelings and we know how it feels that no one understands us, that no one can get our point. It’s “kabuluang and kailinit.”
Language is a great gift God had ever given us humans. Because we have feelings and we are rational beings, it is important that we can express it. God gave us feelings and knowledge but without language they will be useless because we cannot express them. The absence of the expression of feelings and knowledge is somehow the absence of freedom for we cannot speak out. If it will happen, maybe we will “burst.” Language can be used “functionally” and “relationally.” Yes we know that we cannot really express everything in language but we can also approximate. There are terms that no word can capture but let us be grateful because even though language is limited, it is already a big help in our way of living as emotional and rational beings. The best thing about language is that we can be in communion. We can relate with others, we can be a group, a community and WE can be ONE. Now you know how language is important for me. For you, how is language important? What is its meaning for you? What is its part in your life? For me, linggwahe ko, kinanglan ko gid!
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