Name : Gond Asmita K. Roll no – 1 st Paper : 8 th ( Cultural studies) Topic : Role of Language and discourse in cultural studies. P.G.Enrollment no : pg14101017 Class : M.A — 1, Sem - 2 Year : 2014 -- 15 E - mail Id : [email protected]Submitted to : Department of English M.K. Bhavnagar University
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Name : Gond Asmita K.
Roll no – 1st
Paper : 8th ( Cultural studies)
Topic : Role of Language and discourse in culturalstudies.
“Seeing is literally our way of living, the process of communication is in fact the process of community: the offering, reception and comparison of new meanings, leading to the tension and achievements of growth and change”
By Raymond William
Process
Process of communication
Process of community
Offering Receptions
Comparison Leads to
Tension
Growth
Change
Language and cultural studies
Language means constructing
realities. It not just a words or print also
includes speech, painting and photography
Culture is sharing
meaning
Communication creates
community
Meaning and their values, and their
exchange or circulation , constitutes a
particular ‘culture’ or community
Meanings are never fixed : they are arrives at through a process of
negotiation and change
Process
Experience divided into two categories
Central political category
Analytical category
How to generate the meaning
gfhMeaning means representation
Process of signifying
Image, Word , Sound
Concept
Generates the meaning
Representation can be an image ,a word a sound
or a concept
It uses ‘sign’ in order to generate
the meaning
The process of representation is leads to alphabet of culture. Which used to make a meaningful sentences' in short it is a language
Representation:
It means process of signifying and includes the word sign and it’s concept meaning. It can be an image, word, sound or concept.
WordConceptbehind
the Word
Meaning
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Conversation by Sign which generates different meanings
Getting the attentions
Definition of Discourse
“Discourse is a structure of Power that generate particular meaning”
“Discourse is the context in which a
culture’s communication,
meaning, production and
interpretation. It is the terrain ,thought and expression”