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Human beings are linguistic beings. The particularity of the human being is due to language. We are beings who live in language. We are social beings. There is no place outside the language from which we can observe our existence.
It is through language that we understand the reality of the environment and we can explain it. Language is “the abode of being” (Heidegger).
Language is generative. Language not only allows us to speak “about” things, but also makes them happen. It creates reality. Language is action. The American philosopher John R. Searle said that, regardless of the language we speak, we always perform the same restricted number of linguistic acts: humans speak, make statements, affirmations, promises, requests, offers.
These actions are universal. Not only do we act according to what we are, but we are also according to what we act. Action begets being. We are and model our identity according to what we do. With language we delineate the future, through it we participate in the continuous process of becoming.
Human beings create themselves in language and through it. In saying what we say, one way and not another, or saying nothing, we open and close possibilities for ourselves and often for others. When we speak we shape the future. From what we say or are told, from what we are silent, from what we hear or do not hear from others, our future reality shapes itself in one way or another. But in addition to participating in the creation of the future, we human beings sculpted our identity and the environment that we live through language.
Life is the space in which individuals invent themselves. The human being is a space of possibility for his own creation. We are in a permanent process of becoming, of inventing ourselves and re-inventing ourselves within a historical drift.
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* Text posted on my old blog on 11/11/2004.
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