I understand the other’s word (utterance, speech work) to mean any word of any other person that is spoken or written in his own (i.e., my own native) or in any other language, that is any, word that is not mine. In this sense, all words (utterances, speech, and literary works) except my own are the other’s words. I live in a world of othe’s words. And my entire life is an orientation in this world, a reaction to others’ words (an infinitely diverse reaction), beginning with my assimilation of them (in the process of initial mastery of speech) and ending with assimilation of the wealth of human culture (expressed in the word or the other semiotic materials). The other’s word sets for a person the special task of understanding this word (such a task does not exist with respect to one’s own word, or it exists in an entirely different sense). Everything that is expressed in the word collapses into the miniature world of each person’s own words (words sensed as his own). This and the immense, boundless world of others’ words constitute a primary fact of human consciousness and human life that, like all that is primary and taken for granted, has not yet been adequately studied (consciously perceived). In any case, it has not been consciously perceived in view of its immense and essential significance. The immense significance of this for the personality, for the human I (in its unrepeatability). The complex interrelations with the other’s word in all spheres of culture and activity fill all of man’s life. But neither the word in the cross section of these interrelations nor the I of the speaker in that same interrelation has been studied.