The three areas of knowledge I have chosen are three completely different areas of knowledge. However, the similarity is that they all need language. They heavily depend on language for knowledge about the area of knowledge to be passed down to new generations as history. If language didn’t exist, knowledge about these areas of knowledge would not have been able to be passed down to new generations so therefore, the new generations would not have any sort of knowledge about them. Well in fact, these areas of knowledge wouldn’t even exist without language.
For instance, natural science heavily depends on language. It's important in this area of knowledge because language is how scientists use to pass down their discoveries or research from one scientist to another. For example, it was because of language how Mendeleyev was able to invent a periodic table which is used by all chemists and taught in schools all over the world and even the grand discoveries such as the discovery of gravity has been able to be passed down to new generations even after the discoverer's death because of the existence of language. The arts also depends on language for great work done by artists to be passed down to one generation to another. For example, music has its own set of unique notes which is used to play the instrument, this can also be considered as a language. These notes are written in paper and passed down to generations. These collections of notes on paper have made it possible for different musicians all around the world to play the musical piece. Without language, great pieces of work will never be able to be passed down to generation for other individuals to see. Finally, language is also very important when it come to history. Events that occurred in the past would be lost and forgotten if language didn’t exist. For example, if no one documented about the World War II, we wouldn’t know how it started or anything about it. Language is the only way history can be passed down to generations. When people who were involved in the event die, the event will be eventually forgotten if knowledge and information about the event was not noted down in a diary. Therefore, individuals from the new generation would not have been able to understand and analyse the event or even know the event even occurred in the first place.
However, another aspect I'm going to look at of language is how it's being used in these different areas of knowledge to analyse it plays equal roles in these areas of knowledge. In natural science, language is used as a tool to share ideas, knowledge, discoveries, research from one scientist to another. For example, when Newton discovered gravity, without language we wouldn’t have known anything about it. It was because of language that he was able to share his discoveries with other scientists, or else scientists from all over the world still might be trying to discover the reason why when an object is dropped it always fall to the ground. Another way language is used in natural science is that it's used to make sure the discoveries of different scientist are passed on to generations even after the scientist's death. Language is needed to be able to write down the discoveries on a diary so that the younger generations can gain their knowledge. In history, language is used to make sure individuals from the new generations have knowledge about the events which has occurred in the past. Without any written documents about the events which has occurred, there will be no sources left behind for the new generations to analyse and understand the event or even realise the event even happened. The existence of language has caused historians to have sources left behind such as autobiographies of different people who have taken part in the event or was alive when the event took place. So they can analyse and understand the events. In the arts, language is used to let the other generations understand and share the artist's feelings, as the arts are a way of expressing one's feelings. It is used to remember and bring back the feeling to the receiver which the artist once felt. Therefore, language is not only used to pass down the great works of arts, poems, songs and the manuscripts of the songs but also to share and understand one's feelings. By looking at the poems and songs, individuals from the new generation can understand how the artist or musicians felt when they drew or wrote it. Without language, people would not have been able to express their feelings.
On the other hand, language isn't all that perfect, it has its own problems even though language helped people to express their ideas and knowledge to other people and pass down their discoveries and research to other generations. In natural science, the problem with language is that even though scientists document their research and discoveries, the other scientists in the new generations have to have the same understanding of the scientific words used in order to full understand the research or discovery. Sometimes, the scientific words used to document the discovery may change to another meaning or it may not be used in that context anymore as generations pass. For example, the word "wrought", which means done, made or created which was used ages ago. Nowadays no one use the word or even know what it means. In history, the problem with language is that again, if the source was written in a historic language which doesn’t exists anymore. Then the historians in the new generation would have difficulty understanding the source and might even misunderstand it. Another problem is that the source might be biased such as propaganda, deforming the truth of what actually happened. Furthermore, different historians can interpret the source differently as different people reason differently. The understanding of the source one historian has will be different to another historian. In the arts, the problem with language which should be considered is that there are so many words in the English language which has double meanings and there are two different words which mean the same. The point being, since the arts are a way of expressing their feelings, poems and songs with these ambiguous words can mislead the receiver. For example, if a poem or a song contained the word "bangs" which could either mean small explosions or lock of hair in the forehead. If the song or poem was about hair, this ambiguous word can mislead the receiver into thinking the song or poem is about small explosions.
In conclusion, we can see that language is quite important is all three areas of knowledge. However, when analysing if language plays roles of equal importance in these areas of knowledge we also have to consider that its impossible to quantify whether language plays equal roles and we also have to look at how the language is being used in these areas of knowledge. I conclude, that language does play an important role in the three areas of knowledge but if we analyse closely we can see that what language is being used for is different the three areas of knowledge.
