Key Points Ways of looking at a language: There are two ways of looking at language. Ordinary people recognize language only as a means of communication. Linguists generally look at language as a pairing of grammar and a dictionary. These two ways of looking at language restrict the versatility of language and its usage. These perspectives conclude that speakers of a given language come later than dictionaries and grammar that exist in a given language. However, unlike ordinary people or linguists for that matter, it is important that you know there is no language without speakers. Dictionaries and grammars cannot be made unless there are speakers of a language who would participate with linguists or people to prepare dictionaries and grammars. The speech community is the only vital part of language and its usage. A speech community is formed by people who speak a given language and give the given language a shape or standard. There is no doubt that language developed as humans developed in a certain process through various phases. Had there been no society or speech community, the dictionaries and grammar would have had no value. Therefore, to be able to define the language, we will have to understand various aspects of language including the evolution of language. Hence, we can conclude that option 2 is correct.