Intermediate Space as the Space for Effective Communication

Apart from the meaning Susani provides for it, the “third space” can, however, also be described in close connection with communicative and strategic processes, in particular with Lotman’s model of communication. The latter’s idea of communication as a fundamentally bilingual process, which therefore requires “translation” from the addresser’s language to that of the addressee, and vice versa, makes a dual need emerge for the two subjects involved: on the one hand, that of managing to communicate, namely to make their information common, and, on the other, to make sure their communication has maximum value and efficacy, i.e. that it leads to the generation of new information for both. The first requirement leads to communication being seen as transmission of messages and to the mechanism of creating metalanguages being accounted for.