Abstract. The article focuses on the problem of the correlation of oral statements and written texts. A critique of the traditional approach identifying oral and written forms of speech is given. The existence of a signifi cant difference between them as phenomena of different ontology, different dynamics of linguistic activity is confi rmed and justifi ed, the difference in their interpretation and understanding is noted and described.

Keywords: language, spoken language, written language, interaction, speaker, reader, 

meaning, sense, autopoiesis, understanding

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