Meanings And Representations) Meanings And Representations

Question 1

Hegemony

Answer 1

How a social group can use language to get other people to accept its way of seeing the world as natural

Question 2

How do dominant groups in society seek to win the consent of subordinate groups in society

Answer 2

Hegemony

Question 3

Example of hegemony

Answer 3

How disabled peop,e are represented in media

Question 4

Ideology

Answer 4

A set or system of related ideas

Question 5

Stigmatise

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To mark something or someone out as shameful or disgraceful

Question 6

Reappropiation

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Reclaiming a word or phrase that has come to mean something insulting and using it as if it’s normal or even complementary

Question 7

Semantic derogation

Answer 7

Sense of negative meaning or connotation that some lexical items have attached to them

Question 8

Semantic deterioration

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Process by which negative connotations become attached to lexical items

Question 9

Stereotypes

Answer 9

Oversimplified representation of a person, group, institution or event