This document discusses communication and institutions from an anthropological perspective. It provides models of communication from thinkers like Saussure, Buhler, and Jakobson. Communication is defined as establishing coded relations between a speaker and receiver, with the receiver becoming a potential new speaker. The key aspects of an institution according to Malinowski are the people, norms, tools, activities, and functions. An anthropological approach studies the common unwritten laws that govern coexistence in communities. Communication possesses the characteristics of an institution, with language serving as the tool to transform personal experience into something social. Norms are shaped by the language of a society and different languages represent distinct social realities. The common unwritten laws of communication are equivalent

1. Institutio Communicationis Borislav Gueorguiev South-East European Center for Semiotic Studies, New Bulgarian University