Studies in Human CommunicationThe last century has been extremely productive with regard to the analysis and description of human communication. Building on the ideas of Ferdinand de Saussure, early structuralists delineated the phonological and morphological constituent elements of speech by refining and applying the concepts of phoneme and morpheme. In addition to the rigorous description of hundreds of indigenous languages, anthropological linguists using this dataset have worked on the problem of language histories and the division of current languages ​​into related language families with the concomitant contribution to cultural history . Another achievement was the demonstration that not only was language distinct from physical type, but it was also of equivalent complexity regardless of cultural complexity; In the words of Edward Sapir (1921), “The humblest South African Bushman expresses himself in the forms of a rich symbolic system which is in essence perfectly comparable to the speech of the cultured Frenchman. » The second half of the 20th century was dominated by those who followed Noam Chomsky (1957) in the study of the processes by which sentences are generated from an underlying assemblage of semantic, syntactic and phrasal elements and of their rearrangements through transformational cognitive processes. For these two approaches - structural and generative - the symbolic role Forms of communication played little role. There was a concern for meaning, but it was limited to its use:1. As part of a method aimed at discovering linguistic units2. As a lexical marking element to prevent the generation of semantically inappropriate sentences. like "It's not heavy, it's my sister" should not be placed in the middle of the paper...... and the constraints of life are absent, but it is the symbolic dimension which is of interest here. The symbolic values ​​of creativity, spontaneity, freedom and play are dominant. These symbolic attributes are present in real human interactions, but in a virtual domain there are no limits other than those of non-disclosure and abuse for which a member can be censored or even banned. The virtual world is considered an improvement of the human condition. The technological capacity to build and maintain this type of activity creates a new set of symbols or at least a new dimension to the symbols of human life. Posing as an animal avatar may be no different from playing the role of a mom in an animal costume. According to Boellstorff, in Second Life there is a seriousness and commitment to appearances that seems to be a potential rejection of one's true self..