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This is my first editing on Wikipedia. Basic History of Stuart Hall

Stuart Hall (born 3 February 1932, Kingston, Jamaica, then a British colony) is a cultural theorist and sociologist who has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since 1951. Hall, along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams, was one of the founding figures of[1] the school of thought that is now known as British Cultural Studies or The Birmingham School of Cultural Studies. He was President of the British Sociological Association 1995-1997.

 Hall's meaning of representation

According to Hall, the meaning of representation simply is the production of the meaning of the concepts in our minds through language. There are two processes, two systems of representation. First of all, there is the system by which all sort of objects, people and events are correlated with a set of concepts or mental representations which we carry around in our heads.Second, Language is therefore the second system of representation. The relation between things, concepts and signs lies at the heart of the production of meaning in language. The process which links these three elements together is what we call Representation.

 Hall's meaning of sign

It stands for or represent our concepts, idea and feelings in such a way as to enable others to ‘read’, decode or interpret their meaning in roughly the same way that we do. Representation is the production of the meaning of the concepts in our minds through language. There are two processes, two systems of representation. First, there is the system by which all sort of objects, people and events are correlated with a set of concepts or mental representations which we carry around in our heads. Second, Language is therefore the second system of representation. The relation between things, concepts and signs lies at the heart of the production of meaning in language. The process which links these three elements together is what we call Representation. As people who belong to same culture must share a broadly similar conceptual map, so they must also share the same way of interpreting the signs of a language. The relationship in the system of representation between sign, the concept and the object to which they might be used to refer is entirely arbitrary.