Abstract:
"Jesperson – Language is a set of human habits, the purpose of which is to give expression to thoughts and feelings and especially to import them to others.
Edwards Sapir – Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires using a system of voluntarily reduced symbols.
Sweet- Language is the expression of ideas using which speech sounds are combined into words, words are combined into sentences and a combination of sentences gives answers to ideas and thoughts.
Bloch and Targer : Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols using which a social group co-operates. (Contemporary Teaching of English, Dr. R. N. Sharma)
Oxford English Dictionary- Words and the methods of combining them for the expression of thought."
