A human being starts communicating as soon as he starts producing his first noise in the act of drawing his parents’ attention. Every emotion that we portray on our faces, the movement of our hands, the way we look at someone and our speech instantly communicates our ideas to others.
Communication is highly necessary for our society, as it is only through exchange of ideas and co-operation that a society can grow and develop. Effective communication is essential to learn, to teach, to make relationships and to maintain them. In the modern world, the importance of communication has surpassed all previously slated levels. Interestingly, the means of communication has outnumbered the means of food production in the world today.
The communicative technologies in the world have been increasing not only in number, but also in speed, accuracy and clarity. Let us take a closer look and perform an in-depth analysis of importance of communication in the modern world.
All the people on this planet can talk. They speak different languages, but in any language, the main challenge is to aid in the understanding of each other when communicating. No language can not be the development of society, science, technology and art. Language - the main means of communication. It is used for the expression of thought. Express their thoughts should always be clear.
Human language is - an unusually multifaceted phenomenon. To understand the true nature of language, it is necessary to consider different aspects, see how it works, in which the correlation between the elements of his system, how it is exposed to influences from the external environment, the conditions that are committed to change the language in the course of its historical development, which specific forms of existence and function acquires language in human society. However, you must first determine what property the language defines its main essence.
The most remarkable feature of the language, brings it to the other social phenomena and, at the same time radically distinguishes it from them, that language serves society in all spheres of human activity. As society in the process of historical development continuously changing, changing and maintenance functions of its language, its social and functional stratification, the relationship between territorial and social dialects, the social status of the existence of different forms of language.

Language - first of all means the communication. Our communication, however, going to different places, at different times and with different interlocutors. It is easy to note that depending on the situation, we use a different language capabilities. One of the most important tasks of linguistics - to find out how people use language in the communication process, or, in the words of scientists in the process of communications.
Using language depends mainly on the situation of communication, from its specific conditions. Even the speech is itself too communion. Man, as it simultaneously performs two roles: a partner who says, and a partner who is responsible.
The purpose of communication is that when something for which we are going to talk, to communicate something, ask for something, or just pass the time. For some purposes of communication in the language assigned special forms of expression.
For example; orders, requests are usually expressed by the imperative, Shut the door, Please, give me a kilo of flour. If the goal - to find the interlocutor something, are likely to use the question - How to go to the cinema? Don’t you know where Sergei is? The purpose of communication determines the choice of words and intonation. To comfort a small child, we will try to speak a still, small voice, using diminutives address: "Hush, baby! Do not cry.
Language is a major factor in human society because is fundamental in forming and expressing both individual and group identities. Language is also a tool of prime importance in communication among individuals and between groups. When considering ways of improving ‘learning to live together’, the role that language and language communication play in human interaction, should certainly be considered. Mankind has developed thousands of languages, most of which are mutually unintelligible. Most individuals are born into and brought up in only one language.
The languages of many individuals, however, have no or only a very small place in education; many nations and communities are many lingual and, therefore, have grave internal communication problems to cope with; and, on the international level, the languages of both the majority of nations and their individuals have no status.
Although for each individual person his or her own language is a unique and priceless commodity -not in the least because of the close connection between language and culture- and although diversity of languages and cultures may be equally highly priced, it is this diversity that at the same time causes grave problems, both for individual persons and for societies.
The Language and Communication specialization gives you the chance to study various aspects of language, in its function as the ultimate specialized communication tool of human beings. You have the opportunity to study the role of words, grammatical constructions and texts, in such contexts as influencing people’s ideas, regulating social relations, co-coordinating actions and exchanging information.
You investigate how language interacts with culture and with institutions in communication, as well as with different media – not only speech and writing, but modern media as well – and how language changes in the process. We discuss how children learn language through communication, and how they enhance both their communicative and their cognitive skills by means of language.
The diversity of linguistic expertise in Leiden places you in a unique position to discover how different languages provide – sometimes fundamentally – different instruments of communication, related to different cultural and social systems.
Human language is unique because it is a symbolic communication system that is learned instead of biologically inherited. Symbols are sounds or things which have meaning given to them by the users. The meaning is arbitrarily assigned. For example, the word "book" does not in any way physically resemble the object it stands for.
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