Stuart speaks on Media and Cultural Representation
My reflection is about the concept of language by Stuart Hall that we discussed in class. After class discussions I decided to research on Stuart Hall himself. Not only did I like his concept and the whole ideology behind language but I sensed he has lots of experiences with races other than his own.
Born in Jamaica, I got more excited to read about him coming from my part of the world. When Stuart speaks about language, He isn’t interpreting English, French, or Spanish but more like languages that fit into a cultural phenomenon. There has been a certain kind of language and the way people use words that depict the hierarchy of one’s status. It is the language that typically upholds current social orders and maintains it. His perception of language is spoken in a hegemonic form where one influence is so great that it will be almost impossible for any other influence to matter or have any kind of leadership in the society. Large nations have influenced their language upon us making other cultural languages sound primitive, unintelligent and a way to reproduce racism in our surroundings. The large nations have the power and a way of making what they want to be heard seen in the media. Some information in the media could be distorted to reproduce or maintain racial identities but who will know for sure? Hence why Hall suggests that racism and the racialized will forever be affected due to the history and hegemonic practices of different societies. Hall brings about the idea of representation of language where we believe that through a series of representations we can generalize between universal and particular and we have made language and other ideologies associated with specific races very particular.
Born in Jamaica, I got more excited to read about him coming from my part of the world. When Stuart speaks about language, He isn’t interpreting English, French, or Spanish but more like languages that fit into a cultural phenomenon. There has been a certain kind of language and the way people use words that depict the hierarchy of one’s status. It is the language that typically upholds current social orders and maintains it. His perception of language is spoken in a hegemonic form where one influence is so great that it will be almost impossible for any other influence to matter or have any kind of leadership in the society. Large nations have influenced their language upon us making other cultural languages sound primitive, unintelligent and a way to reproduce racism in our surroundings. The large nations have the power and a way of making what they want to be heard seen in the media. Some information in the media could be distorted to reproduce or maintain racial identities but who will know for sure? Hence why Hall suggests that racism and the racialized will forever be affected due to the history and hegemonic practices of different societies. Hall brings about the idea of representation of language where we believe that through a series of representations we can generalize between universal and particular and we have made language and other ideologies associated with specific races very particular.
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