%0 Journal Article %T Lenguaje, comunicaci¨®n y Dise£¿o %A Devalle %A Ver¨®nica %J Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Dise£¿¡Ào y Comunicaci£¿3n. Ensayos %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X the article proposes an historical review on the relation between design, communication and language. the author starts with the artistic-political vanguards of principles of the xxth century to reach the first modern tension between language and communication. on the other hand, the analysis of the bauhaus allows to understand the relation between communication and design. after this first part, the text goes towards the communicational problems that appear in the immediate postwar period and the way in which design begins to assimilate conceptions of the cybernetics theory of the communication. in this point, the article reviews the advances in communicational concepts in the last decades that, sometimes collide with projects universe where the design is located. %K communication %K design %K discipline %K history %K language. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1853-35232012000100017&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en