ABSTRACT
The proposition that “language is the house of Being” was raised by Martin Heidegger in his Letter on Humanism. Thinking brings this relation to Being solely as something handed over to it from Being. Such offering consists in the fact that in thinking Being comes to language. All behaviors fall into four categories in terms of their relationship with language. One of them is spontaneous physiological behaviors, which occur and can be accomplished independently of language. A second category includes behaviors that can be carried out either with words or without words. A third category is what the philosopher John Langshaw Austin and his followers call speech acts. The fourth category is of purely mental behaviors. Thus, formulaic verbal behaviors occur in speech events and a speech event that is characterized with formulaic verbal behaviors will be referred to as a formulaic speech event.
