Heidegger approaches the concept of language from the question of Being. Language must therefore be considered as an ontological notion. To discuss language means to locate it as the gathering of ourselves into the appropriation event. The later Heidegger determines language as the "house of Being". This poetic image provides, on the one hand, a hint of where to look for the truth of Being and explains, on the other hand, Heidegger's shift away from the domain of everydayness towards the domain of language. After Being and Time he makes a turn from language as phenomenon towards phenomenon as language.