Linguistic phenomena of idle talk, curiosity, and ambiguity are found to be interconnected in their Being. Discourse is expressed in language, which communicates state of mind through the "way of speaking": - Intonation. Discourse is primordial along with state of mind and understanding. Language "The existential-ontological foundation of language is discourse or talk". Assertion is derived from interpretation: "a pointing-out which gives something a definite character and which communicates". Things ready-to-hand are encountered as we "see" them: "we do not, so to speak, throw a 'signfication' over some naked thing which is present-at-hand, we do not stick a value on it". In interpreting a thing, we "appropriate" it or "see" it as something: "a table, a door, a carriage, or a bridge". Examples of interpretation are: "preparing, putting to rights, repairing, improving, rounding-out". Interpretation: The understanding operates primarily through interpretation of the things readyto- hand.
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