Secondly, symbols also are integrated in human language. Usage of conventional symbols is understandable in the whole world. Even people who are unable to talk or hear can understand some meanings thanks to their eyesight. For example, on the tickets there are information about the product. In the picture above, we understand everything written on the ticket without ability to talk or hear. A producer of the jumper used symbols which are well-known for everyone. It does not matter if you are from the USA, Brazil, Japan or Poland- these symbols are the same. They show us what should we do with our clothes- in which temperature we should wash them, if we can/cannot iron them, if we can/cannot wash them in the chloride etc. What is more, there are particular sizes of the clothes and thanks to them, we know which jumper or other part of the clothes is good for us. These sizes from 32 to 50 (sometimes even bigger) are established in the whole world. So when we go to the store and need to buy something- for example jumper, we do not have to worry if it fits to us or not, and match it hundrend of times to find the best size because if we previously looked on the ticket from our other clothes than we will know which size is good and suitable for us.
On the other hand, sometimes producers change a little the size of the product. Futhermore, in some countries, mostly in the USA there are a lot of people with overweight and producers make bigger size of the clothes even if on the ticket it is still the same. It is not a good resolution because when we want to buy a gift for someone living in other country, we do not know if the size is good and it fits to our friend. Producers should follow the criteria and produce clothes puruant to previously established roles.
As I said about the symbols in the real life, I would like to mention about mathematical language. Scienciests use their own language to communicate to each other but it is not used in everyday life. Mathematics makes use of language with numbers and symbols taken from different alphabets. All scienciests understand their signs and thanks to them they can easily communicate. For example, let's take the equation: . It seems to be diffucult but when we use specific for maths transformation, we will see that it is not as difficult as we thought. All we have to do is change the power into positive and transform the integer into rational number. Than our equation becomes easy to solve. Without this knowledge our solving would be much longer and unpleasant. Futhermore, let's look at the triangle which is on your left. Maths use special symbols, letters to make their work easier. They do not have to describe every figure which could take a lot of time. Presented triangle is described in very simple and clear way for every mathematicians. Letters from A to C mean that the object has three sides; two long dashes mean that the triangle is isoscele; two short dashes on the right and on the left mean that they have equal size and their angles are equal, too. As we see it is much easier to draw few lines instead of writing.
On the other hand, people who do not learn science have some problems in understanding these subjects. They do not know the special language, theories, terms, symbols etc. It does no metter if somebody wants to explain them of all that because if they have no knowledge about science and its language, they will not understand it. They see diagrams, graphs, sequences but without special knowledge which is gaining by years, they would have some problems and difficulties. Maths language which is use olny among mathematicians seems to be very strange.
Moreover, history is an area of knowledge which could be presented in a form of art, music and literature. Everything which is around us, every year, every person has its own history. We learn the most imporant fact of our history to broaden our horizons and gain better knowledge. Unless there were language than we would not know the history, we would have no information about the other civilizations, monarchies, wars. In acient Roma or Grece (BC), people did not know letters so they used pictures to show and describe situation and everything around them. Over the years, writing developed. Thanks to keeping tracks, chronicles, diaries which survived from the different periods of time, humanists could analyzed what exactly happened in the past. The best thing about history is that there are different points of view. For example if we want to search something about the King of Poland- Władysław II Jargiełło than we will find informations about them as a good king but there are sites where he is described as a bad one. There are his advantages and disadvantages.
As I said, history is not only literature but also art. Paitings, photographies and movies are kind of language which could be interpret in different way. Every color, figure, sound could be understand as something different and it depends on the person who see or listen to it. These things could have a lot of meanings which means that language of art is very individual. An artist who has made, composed or painted a work of art could have problably another view than we have. But in art every is possible and is not forbidden.
As a disagreement I would like to say that sometimes inconspicuous symbol could be very abusive. It usually bases on religion. Adherents see some signs in their black colors, they see relation with their religion and these relations are mostly bad. An arist usually did not want show it in a bad light and has not seen such an interpreation of its work. Reading into works of art could bring on wars and political conflicts which could be dangerous for population.
To conclude, after compersion of historic, art, mathematic language and examples taken from life, we can observe that language plays role of equal importance in every area of knowledge. Thanks to language which is different for every area of knowlege and different in our every-day lfe we can communicate to each other using special language depending on the subject. In mathematics our language is backbone for equations and theorems so unless there were language in maths than there would be only symbols and numbers.
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English- electronic version:
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Google images:
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- Intellego: Example of the triangle