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Language (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a form which, owing to the child's immersion in the linguistic environment even prior to speaking, solicits the child as a whole (rather than fragmentarily).

A Language (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an ideal that is sought, a reality in [potentiality], a future that never arrives.

Language (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠nothing other than the reverberations of my relations with myself and with others. . . It is the medium of human relations.

Language (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠signification before having a signification. It is expressive, which is to say that it is the vehicle of truth rather than a statement of truth.

Language (n.) unites ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠me with myself and with others. The 'I speak' in contrast to the 'I think' presupposes the system of self-other-world, not a 'pure 'I'' and as an embodied subject in a system of embodied subjec:Ts, we are all exposed to others.