1. GROUP 2
1.Sutomo
2.Bayu
3.Rayda
4.Sari
5.Kharisma
6.Tyo

2. LANGUAGE
1. Definition of Language
2. Characteristics of Language
3. Scope of Language

3. 1. Definition of Language
 Language is systematic communication by
vocal symbols (Concise Columbia
Encyclopedia, 1994: 479).
 Language is a complex, specialized skill, which
develops in the child spontaneously, without
conscious effort or formal instruction, is
deployed without awareness of its underlying
logic, is qualitatively the same in every
individual and is distinct from more general
abilities to process information or behave
intelligently (Pinker, 1994: 18)

4. 2. Characteristics of Language
1. Systematic
2. Arbitrary
3. Symbolic

5. 3. Scope of Language
1. Explicit and formal accounts of the system of language on several
possible levels.
2. The symbolic nature of language; the relationship between
language and reality; the philosophy of language; the history of
language.
3. Phonetics; phonology; writing systems; kinesics, proxemics, and
other “paralinguistic” feature of language.
4. Semantics; language and cognition; psycholinguistics.
5. Communication system; speaker-hearer interaction; sentence
processing.
6. Dialectology; sociolinguistic; language and culture; bilingualism
and second language acquisition.
7. Human language and nonhuman communication; the physiology
of language.
8. Language universals; first language acquisition.

6. 4. Conclusion
There are many definitions of language,
but the main point of all those definitions
is that language is system of
communication.