"The main effect of the Internet on language has been to increase the expressive richness of language, providing the language with a new set of communicative dimensions that haven't existed in the past,".

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I have to be able to distinguish between all the signs I use in any communicative sequence.

我们能清楚辨明所有符合,特别是在我们和彼此交流的时候。

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You could use language to describe music, talk about the--a musical language or art, or any communicative system, and there's actually nothing wrong with that.

也可用来描述音乐,即音乐语言,或是去描述艺术,或任何的交流系统,都是没问题的

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It's the study of existing, conventional, communicative systems.

它是关于现存的，常用的，有交流功能的系统的研究。

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So we could ask, in this narrow sense, what properties do languages have and then go on to ask, in a broader sense, what other communicative systems also possess those properties.

我们可以发问,从狭义上说,语言拥有何种特性,然后我们可以接着发问,从广义上说,哪些其他的交流系统也同样拥有那些特性

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It's social and communicative.

它的社会性和交流性。

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