CCT314H5 Lecture 2: WEEK 2 notes.docx

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT314H5
• Professor: Neil Narine

Document Summary

Representation means using language to say something meaningful about, or to represent, the world meaningfully, to other people. Representation is an essential part of the process by which meaning is produced and exchanged between members of a culture. It involves the use of language, signs and images that stand for or represent things. There are three theories to representation: reflective, intentional, and constructionist approaches to representation. Does language reflect a meaning that already exists? (reflective) Does language express only what the speaker or writer or painter wants to say, his or her personally intended meaning? (intentional) Is meaning constructed in and through language? (constructionist) this approach has the biggest impact on cultural studies. Representation is the production of meaning through language. To represent something is to describe it or depict it by calling it up in the mind by description or portrayal or imagination; to place a likeness of it before us in our mind or in the senses.