Essay of Language as communication

Use: It talks about to use the knowledge for

communicating.

Usage: To know the knowledge to speak correctly.

Correctness: Speak Correctly

Appropriacy: speak correctly depending the context

you have : Relationship between speakers.

Signification: The meaning of a single word

Value: the meaning of the word that gives

communication
 Unit 1: Usage and Use
The language is a method of human communication when
speaking or writing, and it could be defined in many ways
through history. Many people have been studying the
language, and also they have been defining it to understand it
until they reach a language teaching. Thus, according to all
those linguistics, we could separate the language in too many
parts for being studied, and we could get some definitions
such as Use, Usage, Signification, Value, Correctness, and
Appropriacy.
If we need to define them, we can say this:
1) Use: It's when a person uses his knowledge of linguistic
rules to communicate with others. For example, when he
wants to put in practice the vocabulary he learned in the
school when buying a hamburger.
2) Usage: It's when a person knows about linguistic rules
without trying to communicate with others (grammar takes
place in this definition). For example, when certifications
evaluate grammar in the exam.
3) Correctness: It's the way a person speaks or writes
correctly; in other words, without making a lot of linguistic
mistakes (it is divided into descriptive and prescriptive).
4) Appropriacy: It's the way a person speaks correctly
according to the context around him; for instance, when
speaking formally and politely with a teacher and informally
with your friends.
5) Signification: The meaning of a word per grammatical rules.
6) Value: The meaning of the words according to
communicative purposes.
All the words have different definitions but those are part of a
language when it is studied because with them we can
recognize easily the part of the language we want to study; for
instance, if we want to know about English vocabulary that
we can use when buying something in a mall, we need to
realize that we're studying the Value of the word and the Use
at the same time; on the other hand, if we want to study the
vocabulary and we want to know where to place it in a
sentence, we would be studying the Signification and the
Usage.
We need to know that language is always learned at the very
beginning, but there will be a moment where it will be taught;
that moment is called 'Language teaching', and it is
understood as teaching people to speak and understand a
foreign language according to the form, phonology, function,
meaning, register and appropriacy of the words and
sentences. Lecturers take place at this moment where
teaching a foreign language because they need to have
strategies to be used when explaining something to the
student. Therefore, the better a lecturer knows about his
language, the better he can teach to his students. For
example, when a teacher is showing vocabulary about
greetings and farewells to his students, he needs to know that
the point he is teaching is about appropriacy, and for that
reason, the strategy he has to use is an activity where the
student might use a greeting or a farewell according to
different contexts.
In conclusion, Use, Usage, Signification, Value, Correctness,
and appropriacy are words that linguistics had been studying
through history for understanding a language until they
correctly arrive at language teaching. Also, the knowledge of
these words made easier the way we can learn and study a
foreign language, besides they give meaning to every word in
a sentence. Therefore, they will help lecturers to create
appropriate activities when teaching the language and, in the
case of the students, they help them to understand easily the
subject they are reviewing. Finally, as we can see, it is an
advantage to know these parts of the language if we want to
reach a good language teaching.