The study is a continuation and deepening of the previously published text Introduction to the Relational Anthropology of Language (Ošlaj, 2025), which explored the possibilities of understanding language against the background of the specificity of human relationships and their philosophical and anthropological assumptions. Based on some quantum-physical insights, especially Rovelli’s relational interpretation of quantum physics, the present text is devoted to the problem of a broader understanding of words in the context of their pre-verbal semantic relations. In it, I substantiate the thesis that the key element of language is not words as such and in themselves, although we usually think so, but rather those non-verbal semantic connections between the linguistic subject and its environment, which the verbal sign merely tears out of the concrete wave of relations and makes independent in the symbolic sign. These pre-symbolic connections can be understood as some kind of invisible semantic bridges, and at the same time as a constitutive element of the widest diaphoric-symbolic network of human relations, on which all symbolic forms are based; among them, first and foremost, language.
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