The document discusses communication as an institution from an anthropological perspective. It defines communication as the establishment of coded relations between a speaker and receiver where the receiver can become a speaker. An anthropological approach studies the common, unwritten laws of coexistence within communities. The document analyzes whether communication fits the criteria of an institution by examining its tools (sign systems), activities (speech acts), functions (socialization, pleasure, healing), norms (influenced by language habits), and laws (pragmatic principles of communication). It ultimately argues that communication demonstrates the arrangements to be considered an institution according to an anthropological framework.