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Speech, Language and Communication

Master's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: languages
Qualification: MSc
Kind of studies: part-time studies
Master of Science (MSc)
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Communication
Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.
Language
Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.
Speech
Speech is the vocalized form of communication used by humans and some animals, which is based upon the syntactic combination of items drawn from the lexicon. Each spoken word is created out of the phonetic combination of a limited set of vowel and consonant speech sound units (phonemes). These vocabularies, the syntax that structures them, and their sets of speech sound units differ, creating many thousands of different, and mutually unintelligible, human languages. The vocal abilities that enable humans to produce speech also enable them to sing.
Speech
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.
Walter Scott, Marmion (1808), Canto II. Introduction.
Speech
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living, 1939-05-15
Language
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (5.6)
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