NAME: Cyril Denise C.

Baranquil
COURSE & SUBJECT: AB English Language
SUBJECT: History of English Language

I agree in the statement that ALL LIVING CREATURES HAVE THE CAPACITY FOR
LANGUAGE , because every living creatures uses different kinds of methods in communicating.
It doesn’t mean that if you say language it only just means speaking in any kinds of dialect.
“The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from
the rest of life. Language is, like nest-building or hive-making, the universal and biologically
specific activity of human beings. We engage in it communally, compulsively, and automatically.
We cannot be human without it; if we were to be separated from it our minds would die, as
surely as bees lost from the hive. (Lives of a Cell 89)”
Just like us people, animals do also need to communicate for them to survive and know also
thing in this world. Though we can’t understand them, just like them on us. But they have their
own and that helps them in their reproductive system and even in hunting their food.
“Such specialized gestures as the indifferent shrug of the shoulders, the admonitory shaking of
the finger, the lifting up of the hand in greeting and the waving of it in parting, the widening of
the eyes in astonishment, the scornful lifting of the brows, the approving nod, and the
disapproving sideways shaking of the head—all these need not accompany speech at all; they
themselves communicate”
Just like us people we uses gestures sometimes as a language or sometimes called as body
language. And I believe that some animals also uses these kind of language for them to
understand or communicate to each other. Example of that is when they are mating, I’ve seen a
lot of it on BBC Earth and I am amused on how are the process, sometimes I see that they
dance, sometimes they shouts. Just by seeing those I keep it in my mind that every kind of
creatures have their own languages just like us.
“Some animals are physically just about as well equipped as humans to produce speech
sounds, and some—certain birds, for instance—have in fact been taught to do so. But no other
species makes use of a system of sounds even remotely resembling ours. Human language
and animal communication are fundamentally different. “
Since language is ultimately just a means of communicating with other people in order to get a
message through to them, it is clear that nearly all biological life is capable of communicating in
some way with people who are part of the same species. It depends on each individual's
intellect whether humans are intelligent enough to understand these languages and recognize
them as languages.
Animals use sounds and body language to communicate with one another. They can express
their emotions through a variety of inborn traits. However, none of these resemble the
constructed words used in human language. When newborns scream and make gestures,
human language also exhibits these types of communication. As children get older, they
gradually learn language words and utilize them to express themselves.
Also we can’t understand each other for us uses different kinds in communicating but as a living
creature we must respect each other.and understands each other differences for all of us wants
to live and be respected.