The present work is part of the research we have been doing for our PhD in Communication (School of Journalism and Social Sciences, National University of La Plata). In order to delimit the scope of this paper, we start from a state of the art centered in the relations, similarities, and differences between language and communication practices. The thesis of this work takes into account two aspects: On one hand, what and which are the language practices associated with communication, analyzed in the frame of socio-discursive interactionism; on the other hand, how these practices emerge in the courses of study in Arts and Social Communication as objects of study and modes of social and/or communicative intervention. We worked with prescriptive curricular perspective and with language practices and communication practices, where the epistemological fields are still being created. Among other aspects this problem is related to the study of the traditional training in power spaces, knowledge over language from the disciplinary field and in the syllabus of the courses of study, and in the traces, the importance and the consequences of this knowledge in teachers' training. This first approach to the state of the art is supposed to be a first sample and analysis of how the object of study has been investigated, the perspectives to think about it, and their methodologies, categories, units of analysis, etc. which have been adopted in these previous works.