Humanities & Social Sciences 8 (2015 8) 1560-1568 ~ ~ ~ УДК 304.444 The Concept of “Communication” in Contemporary Research Ma Liiaa b Natalia P. Koptseva*a and Vladimir I. Kirkob aSiberian Federal University , 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V.P. Astafi ev 89 Ada Lebedeva Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660060, Russia Received 12.04.2015, received in revised form 16.06.2015, accepted 18.07.2015 The article is a review of the research of the communication phenomenon, including the history of formation of the theory of communication, communication models. <...> The article considers communication models of various authors. <...> The article analyzes the modern defi nition of communication of Russian and international authors, reveals the structure of these defi nitions and their basic content. <...> Then we consider the theory of communication, ranging from Harry Nyquist to Harold Lasswell. <...> The fi nal section of the article chronologically examines the most important modern communication models of such authors as Shannon and Weaver, Berlo, Schramm, Barnlund, Innis, Craig. <...> Introduction: defi nitions of communication The phenomena of communication and information reveal the specifi city of modern society (Bakhova et al., 2012, Reznikova and Koptseva, 2013). <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: decanka@mail.ru # 1560 # intensifi ed, the amount of communicating people is constantly increasing (Ilbeikina, 2013, Kolesnik, 2014, Semenova, 2012). <...> Communicative environments are ambiguous and appear in alternative forms (Nikitina and Pimenova, 2014, Razumovskaya, 2012, Semenova, 2012). <...> Natalia P. Koptseva, Ma Liia… The Concept of “Communication” in Contemporary Research Currently, each communication message can be changed and substituted by quite a different message. <...> On the contrary, in traditional societies, each communicative action was unique and predetermined social stratifi cation. <...> At the same time, the range of scientifi c disciplines studying both the phenomenon of communication and the technology of communicative actions, the social value of which has been constantly increasing, has been widening (Ma Liia, 2015). <...> This concept of communication in the modern social cognition has been conceived for the last hundred years in the context of linguistic approaches. <...> This position is irrelevant, currently the subject of communication is <...>