Communication as transmission of information to elicit a response -- The sign and its meaning -- Language and its concepts -- Language as reality and language as a structure -- Written language, scientific language and the theory of information -- Language and games -- Communication and degrees of codification -- The cognitive and emotive dimensions of language -- Non-linguistic communication, music and the plastic arts -- The semantics of religion -- Mixed semantics: theology, poetry and the problem of metaphysics -- Ordinary language and communication -- Language as a channel of social communication -- Natural channels of communication in microgroups -- Natural channels of communication im macrogroups -- Artificial channels of mass-communication --

1. Communication and Language