Type : MCQ
Intructions :
Directions: The following paragraph is followed by four alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the paragraph.
The more prevalent view of language, at least since the scientific revolution and still assumed in some manner by most linguists today, considers any language to be a set of arbitrary but conventionally agreed upon words or signs, linked by a purely formal system of syntactic and grammatical rules. Language, in this view, is rather like a code; it is a way of representing actual things and events in the perceived world, but it has no internal, no arbitrary connections to that world, and hence is readily separable from it.