Body of Language

**The body of language** is a set of speech segments reproduced by a native speaker when performing a communicative act. Language is a system of signs that includes words and grammar. Its important feature is that language is capable of not only serving the cognitive needs of a person, but also transmitting information that is understandable and assimilated by representatives of a given linguistic community. Only with the fulfillment of these functions can a language be called a language in the proper sense of the word. Thus, **the essence of the functioning of language** can be defined as the interaction of communicative acts and the message. In the course of human development, knowledge of what the function of language is has necessarily expanded along with the expansion of humanity's needs for transmitting and receiving information. This constant trend has determined the development of human thought over the past two millennia: we are no longer satisfied with any answers that do not satisfy some conventional standard of objectivity. The accumulation of knowledge has led to the emergence of new concepts. Their very emergence required new characteristics, common features connecting these concepts, although subjective in origin. In order for such new definitions to be universally binding, that is, to be consistently applied in the relevant practical contexts, so that everyone in the language has the same meaning of the concept and is widely used, the latter is usually taken to be the meanings that are considered the most important in terms of the communicative function of the language. This is why it is very important for the speaker to take these meanings into account. Given the possibility of distortion or even loss of meaning on the way from the recipient to the sender of a message, it is also customary to observe the rules of phonetics and grammar of the language, believing that the exact implementation of the relevant rules contributes to proper mutual understanding.

The most important characteristics of language include the ability to designate an object and act on it, the ability to name oneself, other objects, etc.