The document discusses the relationship between language, discourse, and cultural studies, elaborating on how communication and meaning creation are essential for forming community. It emphasizes that culture consists of shared meanings and values, which are negotiated and expressed through various means, including language, art, and symbols. The study of cultural representations is crucial for understanding the complexities of society, as every identity and object requires a contextual representation.

1. Prepared by : Krupali. K. Lewade
M.A Sem-2
Subject : paper 8 cultural studies
Topic of presentation : Language & Discourse
Maharaja krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar university
M.A English Department

2. Communication is the process of
Exchanging, thought, message
and creating meaning.
Language is the symbol system. It
includes the rules regarding the
combination of sounds into
meaning units words, words
unites in to sentence, along with
the rules for using the language.

3. Language & Discourse is kind
of method to study “cultural
studies”
Raymond williams has given
an influential definition of
cultural studies.

4. Our description of our experience comes to
compose a network of relationships, and all our
communication systems, including the arts, are
literally parts of our social organization… since
our way of 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 meaning, leading to the
tensions and achievements of growth and
change.

5.  Studying society is about culture, not only about
economics or politics.
 Combination of meanings and values create
‘culture’ or ‘community’.‘ Communication
‘creates ‘community’.
 A society’s meaning reflect its economic and
political and study meaning is to study a culture.

6.  The role of meaning in society is about ‘culture’.
 A cultural is the sharing of meaning.
 The meaning of the particular word is never fixed.
 The meaning are arrived at through the process of
negotiation and exchange.

7. Meanings are the process of language.
Not only words or print creates the process of language bu
speech, painting and photography also creates process of
language.

8. The term cultural studies is preferred to speak about the
‘meaning’ is ‘representation’.
Representation is the process of the process of signifying ,
and includes the word sign and its concept of meaning.
Representation is the alphabet of a ‘culture
word Concept representation

9. Language is not transparent.
All expression and use of language are situated in a
context.
This context is
Discourse is the context in which a
culture’s communication, meaning-
production and interpretation occur. It
is the terrain of thought and
expression.

10. Cultural studies examines representations
function in a particular society
Every object, subjectivity and identity has to
have some kind of representation.
It can be a name, a symbol, a word, a metaphor
or visual sign.

11. sign
A name
symbol

12. The cultural studies sees culture as a text made of signs and generating
meaning.

13. Dolls are for girl

14. tools

17.  In order to understand one, we need to know and
understand its other or its opposite.
For example ..Feminine
we can not define what ‘feminine ‘ without
knowing.
 All meaning is relational.
 All representation is based on difference..
 All representation is dependent upon.