“First. There is no communication without language, even when you move you express something, you have a body language. And you might think, but that’s natural we are talking about the constructed language. Body language is a construction too, it has some base on nature (you don’t great people hitting them in the face), but kisses have diferent meanings in diferent countries, smiles too, and look into the yes can be a good or bad thing depending where you are. So, there is no way to express anything without a language. Umberto Eco has even said that there is not such a thing like a iconic sign, meaning every sign is related to a learnning process and a society. Language is the way we organize the world, the way we make sense of anything that happens to us by link it to a category, idea or meaning….”
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“Within groups, social and language can be interpreted in many situations, ranging from chatter to speech or from advertising pamphlets to literary novels. It is true that the faculty of language is linked to various cerebral centres that command the different organs, but all these centres control only parts of the language, because the synthesis only takes place at the social level of exchange, learning and actual practice of the language. Language is therefore a social function, made possible by biological functioning.”
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"Languages are semiotic systems, that is, systems that create meaning (through concepts for instance). These work as patterns of relevance and thus point out what "matters" to the speakers (ex: there exist several spectrums of colours described by different languages). Words and metaphors bear meaning and direct the attention of speakers to precise phenomena. Thus, a language may to a certain extent reflect a society's practice of the world, as a certain variation of a language may impact and redirect the society's attentive Energy to other phenomena (ex: gender neutral pronouns). Still, there are no "pure" language in the sense that languages are based on a multiplicity of variations that...