- 16 Mar, 2021
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Analysis
This connection between meaning, language, identity and
cultural difference is mentioned by the notion of a ‘cultural
circuit’: “the question of meaning arises in relation to all the
different moments or practices in our ‘cultural circuit’ – in
the construction of identity and the marking of difference, in
production and consumption, as well as in the regulation of
social conduct” and that the “privileged ‘media’” is language
[2]. This notion of ‘circuit’ stresses the interactive nature of
this web that produces meaning. In summary, language
constructs a certain identity for us and gives meaning to
belonging to a culture or maintains identity within a group of
people. Just as Hall says, “members of the same culture must
share sets of concepts, images and ideas which enable them
to think and feel about the world, and thus to interpret the
world, in roughly similar ways. They must share, broadly
speaking, the same ‘cultural codes’” [2].
Hall believes the recognition of connection between
language, identity and cultural difference is of vital
importance. In his viewpoint, we can not understand any
single one without relating it to others. Or we will have
incomplete view. For example, he recognizes the significance
of the relationship between language and culture. As Hall
puts it, “Language is the privileged medium in which we
‘make sense’ of things, in which mea