Language and Building a Bicycle

Everybody must know that a mean of communication is language. People use language  to convey their ideas to others in form of giving information,answering questions, registering promises, and so forth. Discussing a language, particularly language for communication, can not be separated from structure, function and process of the language itself. The structure of language refers to the grammar of the language, the function means in what purpose people communicate such as for asking question, giving command, answering a question and so forth, while process is how people or speakers produce the sentence in appropriate structure.  

The process of people fit the function of language with accurate structure is much like building a bicycle. People who wants to ride bicycle should have a bicycle which has complete materials such as frame, two wheels, handlebars, pedals, chain,etc. Those materials, then, constructed to create bicycle. The bicycle, on this case, is the analogy of the grammar of language. A sentence that people convey in communication is constructed from certain language structure. A certain structure that people utter (the bicycle), then, must represents certain language function (to transport people from one place to another). When the bicycle built completely, it must work perfectly as the function of the bicycle it self. In language, the structure of question, for example, must have function for delivering question when the speakers of correct question structure. People must need process to build a bicycle. They must have right workshops,tools, and materials before they build them. They then build every part of bicycle with a series of steps, physical operation, and in a particular order. People produce language is like the process of building a bicycle. When people want to convey question (the function of a bicycle), they must be able to use appropriate question structure (the bicycle itself). Using their mental competence, they should be able to understand the process of putting the word in correct order of the question structure (the process of building the bicycle with appropriate materials and procedure).

Producing a language, then, is a process of constructing the language structure to convey accurate meaning of the language itself.