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Speech consists of sounds, and writing of visible marks on a surface, and so both are concrete and exist in the material world. But the sounds of speech and the marks of writing are not language itself. Language is abstract or immaterial, something we learned even as small children by listening to other people using it, not by being taught.
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© 1995 Dennis Freeborn
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Freeborn, D. (1995). Encoding Experience in Language. In: A Course Book in English Grammar. Studies in English Language. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24079-1_2
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