Language - what people got used to use, without thinking as far as it is important as far as we mean to their consciousness and culture. There is no language, people could be called people?
The main difference of the person from an animal available the second alarm system. The second alarm system is a speech. Language – the system of signs and sounds peculiar to a certain ethnic group or the people for speech transmission. All this long ago known facts. Thus, language is the main property of the person, what allows it not only to perceive surrounding reality, to react to it, but also to transfer this reaction to people around and also to analyze the obtained information and to use that knowledge which people already gained to it.
But if to try to tell more simply about value of language in human life, it will turn out approximately following.
Language helps us to think
The ability to thinking is formed at the person in the childhood. At first the newborn baby sees objects, fixes them in the consciousness, learns to learn them and to distinguish from each other in a form, color, other signs. This dorechevy the stage of development of thinking lasts very not for long. Gradually, hearing names of objects and phenomena, the child learns to compare what was seen with by what combination of sounds his adult designates. He acquires words! For the present without being able to say them, it already surely distinguishes them aurally and surely shows a finger a table or mom when it about it is asked. But such understanding of the speech is peculiar also to animals. Begins development of words, their grammatical forms further, the skill of creation of offers appears. The child already expresses a word the emotions, desires, tries to give thoughts. When this stage is completed, one may say, that the person mastered language. Abstract thinking is peculiar to the adult. It means that he thinks of words. Any idea, emotion, an image receives verbal expression in human consciousness. Even beholding an abstract picture, the brain unconsciously selects familiar concepts, that is words for simplification of her perception. Seeing any subject or the phenomenon, people habitually select a word for its designation and if do not know for sure how it is called, find similar concepts and definitions. Feeling something, the person more or less accurately formulates it words. And than better at him it will turn out, he especially fully realizes the feeling.
Language – the means of communication
Without knowing language, it is extremely difficult to communicate with similar, it is even impossible. It is very accurately felt by the person placed in absolutely alien language environment. So, difficult to the foreigner to speak with local community if language of this country is not familiar to it even remotely. But not only in daily communication the people use language. By means of language there is a communication of generations. Written sources inform modern people of knowledge, experience, feelings and thoughts of those who lived quite recently or many generations back. If language changes, then such dialogue becomes already extremely difficult: from an age of XXI it is already extremely difficult to person to understand that the author of the literary work written one thousand years ago wanted to express even if both of them are representatives of one people.
Language – the carrier of national culture
It is considered that the person belongs to those people in which language he thinks. And this opinion is not accidental. Language, its sound system, the system of word meanings, their building, ways of education are closely connected with culture and traditions of the people native speaker. They say that it is difficult to European to understand the representative of the Slavic people – not therefore whether that their languages are not closely related? Whether and the mentality of the people of the Far East is so mysterious on that to the reason that the difference in language is too strong? Not accidentally it is considered that it is possible to understand mentality of foreign nation, having learned its language. Therefore it is possible to tell that language – the center of soul of the people, its spirit and an essence.