“An important aim of education is the adjustment of the individual to the world in which he/she has to live, and
linguistic knowledge is a help toward that end, the study of
the language is one of the best ways in which a narrow belief
in the rightness of one’s own ways of doing things, and the
wrongness of every way, can be broken down.”
Natural languages are also often redundant
All languages change
they may change I different ways depending on social, political and other circumstances
Structuralism
theoreticalapproach to the analysis of language
FerdinanddeSaussure is known as the father of structuralism. In 1916, his (CourseinGeneralLinguistics) published
CourseinGeneralLinguistic
where main ideas of structuralism were formulated.