LANGUAGE IS THE RESULT OF EXPERIENCES WITH LANGUAGE

In the last months, I have read about language according different authors, researchers and teachers, and almost the majority say that the language is the result of experiences with the language and then those are described and a new perspective of language is emerging.

The study of language arises from wonderful experiences where the linguist is observing, asking, discovering and showing what wonderful the language is. In the first chapter of his book, Crystal (2009) shows how the language is a widely-known field of research because every day it gives new phenomenon to study, to observe, to discover. He shows how each single experience with language gives another opportunity to discover a new world, which is filled of possibilities to keep researching.

According to this author, the main reason because many disciplines study and observe the language is the wide variety of proposals language offers; You can study a single world and discover that it can be studied from sociolinguistics due to the ways it is used, or from psycholinguistics because of the way how this word can be used, or from phonology owing to the way it is pronounced and it is possible to study this word from anthropology: it would be to study it from human being evolution (I do not know if any science about the origin and evolution of words certainly exist, it would be wonderful!!!).

Being linguist is more than knowing theories about language, perhaps it is to be conscious and take advantage of each single situation to study, go deeply and discover a new world inside language. Finally, I just want to say that I as a teacher have the enormous blessing to study and teach the language, to live with those new experiences, to discover new possibilities and teach from those ones. The language is here and there, inside and outside, near and far away.