This pa per deals with the ins crip tions on the walls of the hos pi tal in Kroměříž. The se signs were crea ted in the hos pi tal area from its ope ning at the be gin ning of the 20th cen tu ry un til its se - cond half. The author examines selected inscriptions from specific linguistic (sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic) communicative perspectives. Text provides information about signs in a structure gi ven by func tions and to pics. At the same time, the au thor in ter prets the ins crip tions wi thin the framework of the philosophy of borderline situations of M. Heidegger and K. Jaspers.