1. What is communication?
2. What is language?
- Definition of human language.
- Definition of divine language.
3. Is language a natural phenomenon, a human artifact, or a gift of God?
4. Was language created once for all time?
Is language constantly created by each use?
5. Is meaning of symbols intrinsic or extrinsic?
6. Is language aided or hindered by complexity of forms?
7. Is language best studied synchronically or diachronically?
8. Is language creatively increased and expanding, or is it decaying?
9. Is language study exhausted in comparative grammar and philology, or must it reach out to include all of what human beings do with language?
10. Do the grammatical forms of language reflect the particular culture of a people or are such quite accidental?
11. Do we think only with words, or may we also think without them?
12. Is each person’s language private, or is there no such thing as private language?
13. Do words refer to objects or to ideas?
14. What are the mechanisms of reference?
15. What are the capabilities and limitations of different notational systems in language?
16. Is translation always possible or not?
17. Is language whole and contextual or is it linear?
18. Do poetry and prose really differ, or are they essentially the same?
19. What are the differences between the spoken and the written versions of a language?
20. Can everything be said?
21. What is the ideal language and how would it operate?