Communication has come to be regarded as a symbol of the age in which we live. Talk
is frequently of “communication explosion”, of “communication technology” revolution,
even of “communication society”. But what is communication and how can we make sense
of it?
Many of us, when asked about communication, usually think of it as a mere information
transmission from a source to a receiver by means of coding-encoding processes.
However, different studies during the last fifty years clearly underlined that one thing is
what is said, another is what is meant. In fact, many meanings are characterized by fuzzy
boundaries that are defined by the context in which they are expressed. Within this
perspective, meaning is not a fixed system of univocal correspondences between
expression and content, but a set of possible inferences that have different probability
degrees of realization