ABSTRACT
The chapter discusses the role of language in communication, focusing on four interconnected levels of interaction experience: intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, and intercultural. Intrapersonal communication is identified with self-talk and representational view of language; interpersonal communication is identified with conversation and the concept of ‘language game’; group communication is identified with discourse and its public examination; and intercultural communication is identified with the speech codes shared by the entire group and used to produce and understand texts. It is shown how all limits of language are not constraints but openings, and how in every situation of communication we enter the liminal space of language where meaning is constituted and participants are transformed.
