Five alternative summaries are given below the text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text. Our words are amalgams of some sound and meaning, and put in some order to express our feelings, thoughts, information, beliefs and so on, for different purposes in life. We also understand others by interpreting their words, which may involve certain background knowledge, perspectives, and presuppositions. Chomsky is well aware that in actual circumstances, language use is guided and affected by many factors, which he thinks are not amenable to scientific studies. But in his view, some general properties of meaning and sound can be identified and explained by internal principles and rules. a. Many people tend to think that linguistic activities are instances of the use of a common language or publicly accessible set of well-formed sentences. b. Linguistic phenomena have their origin in the human mind/brain, which contains the language faculty as one of its components. c. Words are a fusion of language performance, which we can trace back to knowledge of language and further, to the internal mechanism that is recognized by a language user. d. Words have an internal structure, and are analytically related. e. Words if not conveyed properly change the structure of communication.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:30:00 +0000
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