Communication Models and their Use in Various Theories of Language

The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the way in which the process of communication is conceived and implemented in various linguistic theories. The process of communication was considered in structural linguistics and understandably it is at the core of various functional approaches to the study of language. The individual theories - functional structuralism, systemic- functional grammar and functional cognitive grammar - differ only to a limited degree in the ways of conceiving the communication process and its implementation in the description of language and discourse. In all of them, the intermingling of the system of language and its instantiation in discourse has always been a fundamental tenet.