Hello dear friends of steemit. My last post will have made them see my interest in communication and language in general. Today I continue in that line and I want to share, in that sense, some small, but very important, notes on communication and language in humans.

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Codes and messages

A code consists of a limited set of signs. According to the shape of the signs, the messages are classified as visual and auditory.

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The human language

Human language constitutes a complex communication system capable of transmitting a large amount of information. The signs that this language is served are called linguistic signs.

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The components of the linguistic sign are two significant and the meaning. The relationship between the meaning and the signifier is arbitrary.

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The functions of the language

According to the intention of the verbal communication, the following functions of the language can be established: expressive, conative, factual or contact, referential or representative, poetic or aesthetic and metalinguistic.