Gramática Inglesa I

Abstract

Language: 1) Language is a network of systems, or interrelated sets of options for making meaning (Halliday 1994:15). 2) Language is a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements (Chomsky 1957:13). 3) Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols (Sapir 1921:8)