MODELING COMMUNICATION: TOWARD AN INTEGRATIVE STRATIFIED MODEL

Abstract

This article is situated within the framework of contemporary communicative linguistics and aims to develop an integrative stratified model of communication based on a critical analysis of classical and contemporary approaches, seeking to systematically articulate the structural, interactional, cognitive, and socio-discursive dimensions of the communicative process. The study examines the evolution of communication models, identifies their theoretical foundations and explanatory limitations, and determines the essential parameters of the communicative process. The analysis highlights a gradual shift from linear transmission models to interactional and cognitive approaches that conceive communication as a situated and cooperative activity. However, despite the diversity of existing perspectives, the systemic articulation of structural, interactional, cognitive, and socio-discursive dimensions remains insufficiently stabilized, resulting in paradigmatic fragmentation and limiting the integrative potential of existing models. To address these limitations, the article proposes an integrative stratified model based on the interdependence of four levels: structural (code, channel, noise), interactional (dynamic roles of participants and feedback), cognitive (mental representations, inferences, shared knowledge), and socio-discursive (institutional and cultural frameworks). Communication is thus understood as a dynamic process of meaning co-construction, whose organizing principle lies in the progressive alignment of participants’ mental representations. The proposed model offers a coherent conceptual framework that can be applied to the analysis of contemporary discursive practices and further interdisciplinary research.