Language is a common practice of communication used by human beings to convey their feelings and

ideas, as well as exchanging information. Language exists in human society as a medium for cultural
development and, moreover, to establish a good relationship between each individual.

The relationship between a sign, signifier, and signified can be described as:

A sign is anything that represents or indicates something else, like an object. A signifier is a physical form
of a sign, like a word, sound, or image, that creates communication. A signified is a concept that the
signifier refers to. The sign and the object are connected and have meanings, such as when a stomach is
rumbling, it is a sign that someone is hungry. (The rumbling stomach represents the signifier, while the
indicator that someone is hungry is the signified.)

Learning how to interpret signs is important because it is an essential part of how we become better
communicators.

The characteristic of a language that I have a profound connection with would be that language is social,
considering its importance in society, and plays a big role in building up human interactions. It would be
hard to understand a certain language without engaging in a real conversation with another being. For
example, when I was studying a language for a trip to another country, I spent days learning it from a
book or a website. But in the end, engaging in a conversation with the native is the one thing that
helped me the most in learning a new language.

The linguistics branch that I’m most fond of is sociolinguistics, because I think it is significant to know the
correlation between languages and the variations of them across different societies and regions, for
language is a social phenomenon after all.