This article discusses the ontological dimension
in the Heideggerian category of “talking,” based on which we seek to make an interpretation
of communication as a fundamentally intersubjective phenomenon. To this end, we use
Heidegger’s Being and Time. We begin by explaining Heidegger’s concept of language, which
he discusses in the above cited book, to gain an understanding of this philosopher’s concept
of communication. We seek to demonstrate that talking is equivalent to giving ordinary
meaning to something: not the encounter, the revelation, of the meaning itself of something,
in its so-called ontical dimension, but the meaning present in intersubjectivity, in the shared
world, and in the resources of understanding that the individual uses in his interactions with
others. Based on this rationale, we seek to demonstrate that philosophical reflections about
language and communication should be rooted in the ontology of being-with-others in order
to go beyond the bounds of the individual’s metaphysics and of subjectivity in order to gain
a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of intersubjectivity.
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