Abstract
The paper deals with language as a fundamental pillar of the Life-World. It presents some of the phenomenological and social-scientific conceptions, characterizing the linguistic relationship of a man to the world as an inter-subjective community.
It selects the basic ideas about language in the work of Edmund Husserl, about speech as a 'House of Being' by Martin Heidegger and about the role of language in the concept of three life-movements by Jan Patocka. It also focuses on the relationship between language and speech and indicates a crisis of language in a connection with a crisis of the Life-World.