Language for communication is a product of

Language for communication is a product of everyday life, growing out of the ordinary give-and-take of people living and working together.

It is shaped in daily use, where meanings are agreed, tested and passed on through common experience rather than being manufactured apart from it.

Calling it a product of laboratory simulation is wrong, since language is not engineered in controlled experiment but arises in lived interaction.

Tracing it to religious affiliations narrows a whole society's shared tool to one domain of belief.

Treating it as an elitist preference denies that language belongs to the ordinary many, not to a privileged few.

Vygotsky's view that symbols are learned within a social context underlines this rooting of language in everyday communal life.