"The object of study"

As I was reading through the assigned reading for this week a particular quote caught my attention. It reads "the faculty of articulating words is put to use only by means of the linguistic instrument created and provided by society". After reading this it appeared to me that the author was trying to convey the message that language would not exist without society, in a quick and dirty sense none the less. So I sat back and thought how true is this? It appears to be along the same line as the famous saying "If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it does it still make a sound"? Does it make sense that if there was no sort of organized society language would cease to exist, like the sound of the tree? Or possibly we as human beings would have come up with an alternate method of communication. This is just a though and what my understanding of what the blog is for, any response would be appreciated.

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Welcome to the class blog. Each tutorial group has their own. Use it for thoughts, questions, problems, ideas, and discussion! Please be respectful of one another. Michael and I are members as well, so we can contribute too by posting and commenting on others' posts. We are also administrators of our tutorial groups' blogs, which means that we control the format of that blog, and we can remove any post or comment that is inappropriate for this forum, even if we didn't author it ourselves.
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