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does language play roles of equal importance in different areas of knowledge?
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Hana Fahim TOK essay Q.4 Does language play roles of equal importance in different areas of knowledge? Different dictionaries interpret language in different ways. But primarily language is "a method of human communication, either spoken or written"1 but it does not need to be a vocal form of communication. It is "the system of communication used by a particular community or country"2. And it is also "the manner or style of a piece of writing or speech"3. It also needs to apply to everyday life. This means that any language needs to have "a vocabulary of symbols or words, a grammar consisting of rules of how these symbols may be used, a community of people who use and understand these symbols and a range of meanings that can be communicated with these symbols "4. To most people, language represents what we speak and what we write. But there are other ways of communicating...
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