Linguistic Communication: An Introduction, History, and Case Studies of Communication as Knowledge Transfer

204 Pages Posted: 13 Sep 2013 Last revised: 5 Jun 2014

Date Written: September 12, 2013

Abstract

This work inquires language from a historical perspective. It inquires language to that degree that it even asks about the relevance of the proven existence of language at all. Our ideas and opinions about language and how it functions are results from our experiences of language – be it learned, traditionally on cultural setting we live in trained, or in the lifetime experienced by one’s own experiences. Culturally speaking, the historical view on the usage of the word ‘language’ shows us that only in short periods of the human culture this word existed at all. Also the word’ language’ was used and developed from different linguistic meanings in an etymological range so that we can say that the basic and in virtually all cases grounding meaning in various languages is never the same, even though many languages have the same concrete origin.

Keywords: linguistics, communication, history, etymology, language

Suggested Citation

Haase, Fee-Alexandra, Linguistic Communication: An Introduction, History, and Case Studies of Communication as Knowledge Transfer (September 12, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2324704 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2324704

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