Speaking requires access to culturally specific codes that classify social life.

Evidence

To express ourselves within this objectivated system of signs we must have access to the rules and conventions which govern speech and articulation; to the various codes— the precise number and disposition of the codes will vary from one linguistic and cultural community to another—through which social life is classified out in our culture. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 896

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Speaking is what gives private concern socially usable meaning — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 95; Language is socially constructed and speaks through individuals; Speaking a language means assuming its entire culture and civilization. (+9 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Speaking is what gives private concern socially usable meaning — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 95; Language is socially constructed and speaks through individuals; Speaking a language means assuming its entire culture and civilization. (+9 more)