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Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Statement I:Communicative language is the means of transmission of our values and social norms.
Statement II:Language defines and communicates the world around us.
ABoth Statement I and Statement II are true ✓ Correct
BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false
CStatement I is true but Statement II is false
DStatement I is false but Statement II is true
Correct answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are true
Explanation

Both statements are true, since communicative language both carries a society's values and gives shape to the world it names.

Statement 1 is sound because language is the vehicle through which values and social norms are transmitted from person to person and generation to generation.

Statement 2 is sound because language defines and communicates the world around us, dividing experience into words and passing that picture on.

The two work together, one stressing what language transmits and the other how it frames reality itself.

Neither claim overreaches, so reading either as false would understate language's role in social life.

That symbols are learned socially and then used to share meaning underlies both the transmitting and the world-defining functions.

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