Philosophical concepts of natural language

The paper deals with the concept of natural language in modern philosophy and presents its main characteristics. This term is studied in the philosophy of L. Wittgenstein, H.-G. Gadamer, J.G. Herder, W. von Humboldt, L. Hjelmslev, F. de Saussure, M. Heidegger, and G.G. Shpet. It is argued that natural language is the basis for the development of each person’s speech. This type of language is formed by people during communication. Besides, it helps develop any kind of knowledge and is of a social nature (it has general schemes for understanding and expressing meanings). The purpose of the study is to analyze the modern concepts of natural language and update the idea that this type of language can be a methodology of humanitarian knowledge when studying the issues of communication, creation and usage of language phrases. The paper examines the concepts related to the generation of natural language and updates the natural language model for modern scientific knowledge. The research findings may be useful within the syllabus of history, philosophy, philosophy of language, and philosophy of culture.