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Since our early childhood, we have perceived speech as a tool of life: we ask and we get, we insist and are accepted or rejected. However, as we grow older, we are being taught to perceive the language as a system of grammatical categories, syntactical relations, semantic variability. And only very rarely is there anyone to explain to us how the elements of the language can be sewn to form perception patterns. We are given patterns of life in the form of speech ethics, templates of situations and significant texts. A phenomenological pattern is the type of the general representation of the flow of speech in the mind of a speech recipient. Neither the sun, nor the moon, nor the stars, nor the clouds may be called "phenomena' in the phenomenology of speech—but only their mental representation through speech in the multiplicity of structural, semantic and epistemic relations in the context of speech, soaked in the overall life experience, that is valid at the moment of reading or listening.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71198-0_7

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