Answer to Question #290551 in English for Sam

Question

What feature of human language best describes the formation of 

the words Twitter, Facebook and cyber-bullying in the text?

Answer 1

Language can have scores of characteristics but the following are the most important ones: language is arbitrary, productive, creative, systematic, vocalic, social, non-instinctive and conventional. These characteristics of language set human language apart from animal communication. The feature of human language that best describes the formation of words in twitter, Facebook, and cyberbullying is Language is Social feature of human language. This is because language is a set of conventional communicative signals used by humans for communication in a community. Language in this sense is a possession of a social group, comprising an indispensable set of rules which permits its members to relate to each other, to interact with each other, to cooperate with each other; it is a social institution. Language exists in society; it is a means of nourishing and developing culture and establishing human relations.