The Limitations of Language as Communication Language cannot express accurately nor with great precision the things that make the human being be human. Words are often incapable of even hitting the tip of the iceberg in accomplishing this task. More accurate and precise in many cases is laughing or crying or slamming the door. There are so many other ways to express emotion that are better than language that it begins to appear as the weakling of all forms of communication. It is ironic that language, this weakling form of communication, is a major, if not the major, characteristic that distinguishes the homo sapien from the human being.
Emotions are the result of an individual s reaction to a stimulus, which can be virtually anything.
I believe the answer is no because words are merely symbols of those things working within us that determine our reactions to stimuli. These inner workings are our frames of reference. From here on, I will refer to them as such. So, while words are only symbols of who we are individually, they also bind us together, creating among us a commonage of identity, which will be discussed in a later section. I describe the frame of reference metaphorically as a web.