language and Representation of Culture in Stuart Hall's Theory

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

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1 PH.D student, Philosophy of Art Dep. Islamic Azad University, Science and Research branch, Tehran , Iran

2 University instructor, Philosophy of Art dep. Islamic Azad university, Science and Research branch, Tehtan, Iran

Abstract

Cultural Studies is fairly new in humanities that has been developed since 1980 , specially in the U.S., as a method. Stuart Hall has developed this field in a few books as Representation: Cultural Representations And Signifying Practices, and Encoding/ Decoding in the Center of Contemporary Cultural Studies. Hall suggests that language is the representation of culture ,which is quite inseparable from it. The processes of encoding and decoding take place within/ by means of culture and as the culture is perpetually moving and changing, signification and meanings getting shaped, are not static either, andare changing all the time, so the meaning is not fixed and unitary, and is continously getting constructed along with the changing culture. This paper is to show that although the culture and representation try to fix the meaning according to the norms the leading culture and discourse, they deconstruct themselves at the same time and give way to the new readings of them. So, unlike the leading culture and discourse, one can always create and build new meanings that each can be an event to deconstruct the culture and Art and lead them to the new paths.

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  • Receive Date: 26 November 2016
  • Revise Date: 01 January 2022
  • Accept Date: 31 December 2020

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