MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI BHAVNAGAR

UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Enrollment number: 2069108420200018
Batch year: 2019-21

Cultural Studies
Language & Discourse

Presented by: Ruchi Joshi

ruchivjoshi101@gmail.com
 Language
Culture
On a practical level, Culture refers to dynamic social systems
language has to do with and shared patterns of behavior, beliefs,
sounds, symbols and knowledge, attitudes and values. Culture
gestures that a community provides the environment in which
languages develop, even as it influences
puts in order and associates
how they are used and interpreted
so that they can
communicate. On a deeper
level, language is an
expression of who we are as To Study…
individuals, communities,
nations.

Words
gives us
world view
 Why language and Cultural Studies?

the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial,

religious, or social group also :
the characteristic features of everyday existence

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 community:
The offering, reception and comparison of new
meanings, leading to the tensions and
achievements of growth and change.
 Example
Text: हमने सुना था एक है भारत
सब मुल्कों से नेक है भारत

Language: representation of this song

(Unity in Diversity)

Discourse:
1. religion wars within the same Dharma
2. in spite of democracy, are people free?
 Experience
(especially in terms of the everyday)

Cultural Studies is basically

Diversity
an exploration of specific
contexts
• Culture
• Community
Light- Pride
heartedness • Nation
• Caste
• Class
• Gender
Harmony Innovativenes • Race
s • Sexuality
Where representations
Adaptability produce and reinforce
identities through particular
modes.
 What discourse does is to
define what can be said.

India had great

heritage
but
हमने सुना था एक है भारत Has India great
heritage?
सब मुल्कों से नेक है भारत
Language is situated in Discourse
then can it be neutral?

Are we taking proud in our culture

then why are going to somewhere
else?

Do we really have दिल है हिंदुस्तानी?

Why we are not accepting if we are

not satisfied with culture?

मेरी जूता है जपानी

ये पतलून इंग्लिशतानी
सर पे लाल टोपी रूसी
फ़िर भी दिल है हिंदुस्तानी
 What do you think,
What India according to you as a part of India?
 Work Cited
• “Culture.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster,
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture. Accessed 27
Feb. 2020
.
• Nayar, Pramod K. An Introduction to Cultural Studies. Viva Books,
2011.

Reference:

• Virginius Xaxa. “Politics of Language, Religion and Identity: Tribes

in India.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 40, no. 13, 2005, pp.
1363–1370. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4416402. Accessed 28
Feb. 2020