Abstract
This article, based on the reports of the Near-Death Experiences cataloged in interviews, analyzes the importance of language in the construction of narratives of meaning. In a qualitative way, the text argues how individual perspectives may reveal cultural contexts. Thereunto, the questions are based on three central points: (1) How are the narratives of Near-Death Experiences constructed by those who experienced them? (2) What are the implications of these narratives on symbolic perception and language? and, (3) How does such experience regulate the informants' emotional patterns from language, producing what may be called the cosmological language? One of the main results found is the importance of language in the production of human culture, because it presents itself as the essential medium of expression of the senses and through which feelings, thoughts, emotions, actions and times are shared, consequently developing systems (myths, arts, religion, family, economy and politics).
Keywords:
Culture; Language; Narratives; Experiences; Death