Definition of Language

Language is meant to communicate with others by using same system, not only in letters or verbally. Thinkers such as Rousseau have argued that language originated from emotions (A language meant to conveys ideas and feelings but it still needs a rhythm and sounds so that is a melody, in this way that it excites humans’ emotions that they express and the image of which they recognize in them (Rousseau,1781, pp318.322)) while Tomasello claimed that humans alone are capable of recognizing intentionality in others example like a young children can understand when their parent making that sound with the intention that they attend to something (Tomasello, M., 2003, pp22-23). 

Noam Chomsky, the originator of the generative theory of grammar, who has defined language as the construction of sentences that can be generated using transformational grammars which means we can make judgements as we possess an abstract system of unconscious knowledge about our language (Aaron, S.,1998).

Talking all of these theories of language from different experts it is because before we move into discussion of fashion, we want to explore whether fashion is one of those kinds of languages and if it so, what kind of language does fashion proposed to the society? Is the role of women in majority part of this?  

These theories help us have more understanding on how language actually works in our society. Now we know that language has expressed in more directions and abstractly.

Bibliography

Aaron, S. (1998) ‘Noam Chomsky on Language’. [online] http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/199812--.pdf [Accessed 8 June 2015]

 

Jean, J. R. (1998) John, T. S., Rogerd, M. and Christopher, K. (eds) Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music (Collected Writings of Rousseau). London: The University Press of New England Hanover and London. pp. 318, 322.

Tomasello, M. (2003) Constructing a language: A usage-based theory of language acquisition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.