Language

Introduction: Language

Description of Language

Language: The use of spoken, manual, written, and other symbols to express, represent, or receive communication. [L. lingua]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Language: systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; broadly includes phonetics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and linguistics.
Source: CRISP

Language: A verbal or nonverbal means of communicating ideas or feelings.
Source: MeSH 2007

Terms associated with Language:

Related Topics

• Multilingualism
• Sign Language

Source - MeSH 2007

More specific terms for Language:

• Language Arts
• Linguistics

Source - MeSH 2007

• language translation
• multilingualism
• nonEnglish language
• phonology
• psycholinguistics
• semantics
• sign language
• sociolinguistics
• spelling
• symbolism
• verbal behavior
• vocabulary

Source - CRISP

Broader terms for Language

• Communication

Source - MeSH 2007

• communication

Source - CRISP

The term Language can be used for:

• linguistics

Source: CRISP

Hierarchical classifications of Language

The following list attempts to classify Language into categories where each line is subset of the next.

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
  • Behavior
    • Communication
      • Language

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy

• Information Science
  • Communication
    • Language

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