The book by a famous literary critic and linguist explores language as the environment of human existence, with which he constantly interacts. The author has set himself the goal of trying to paint a picture of our everyday linguistic life, following the linguistic behavior and intuition of speakers, to develop such an approach to language , in which an endless and undifferentiated flow of linguistic actions and associated mental efforts, ideas, memories, and experiences would come to the fore. The focus of the study is the communicative and spiritual-creative aspects of language activity.