Ideology and Language: How Words Shape Our Worldview
Ideology’s Dependence on Language
The ideology depends on the language: “By ideology we mean the set of reflections and refractions in the human brain in social and natural reality, which he expresses and fixed by the word” (Bakhtin, 1929). Ideology is an articulated system of ideas expressed by words. For example, understanding the circumstances of a worker who works 12 hours a day without education, security, and is underpaid… These experiences translate into reality as an abstract concept that would be “unjust,” and that comes from intellectual reasoning. Ideology can be considered a system of processes by which reality is intellectualized; ideology is an intellectual translation of what happens in everyday life. The speech or translation of ideology is always through the word, of language. Mental reality is an abstract reality, you cannot perceive it through the senses. When this reality is intellectualized, expressing it through language, we are building ideology. Ideology is a system of ideas which have been laid down and explain the world. It’s important not to identify ideology and politics. For example, Marxism is an ideology that is above politics (communism); there are many non-Marxist communisms. On the other hand, a Borges story would not reflect ideologies but ideology because the ideology is transmitted through the floor. Socialized individuals communicate in society, that is, their statement (which manifested discursively) is a complex and dynamic tissue that Bakhtin called SOCIAL DIALOGUE (discursive structure of a society is dialogue): “No general statement can be attributed solely to Speaker: the product of the inreacción of speakers and, more broadly, the product of complex situation has emerged in which (…) The verbal part in man (…) belongs not to the individual, but to their social group or their social environment (…) The structure of the utterance, and the experience expressed, is a social construct.” The social ideology is when we reproduce what we do in society. The company is in constant dialogue, so we say that the discourse structure of a society is dialogue. Everything we say is not only our product but our own; everything we say reflects, reproduces, or refers to another person. Language is a collective structure, social. Any element of language is collective: we all share the same meaning of words, the same rules of combination of linguistic units, etc. Example: Eskimo – white. Inheriting a language, you can say one thing and another not. Therefore: the ideology refracted communication. Any act of communication implies a conscious intervention or a refractive unconscious ideology. Thus, any discourse, to a greater or lesser extent, reflects ideology. Ideology is a concept born out of context.
Inheriting a language, you can say one thing and another not. Therefore: the ideology refracted communication. Any act of communication implies a conscious intervention or a refractive unconscious ideology. Thus, any discourse, to a greater or lesser extent, reflects ideology. Ideology is a concept born out of context.