Abstract
A linguistic utterance it is always a broken silence. The Big Bang, the Word of God or the word of the O/other—most languages have expressions to involve silence and breach. The broken silence causing meaning was in the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce initiated with the study of meaning and sign: semiotics. A cultural mistrust can creep into the meanings of our words, and make articulation a risky issue, as Von Hofmannsthal's Chandos Letter illustrated. Klages' logocentrism, as well as the last line of the Tractatus of Wittgenstein, unfold the same idea. But silence is not a cause: meaning appears to be a complex process of articulation, a constellation: not a series of fixated arguments. That inspires the lawyer or the law student, when he reads the semiotic conclusions at the end of those considerations.