Meanings And Representations: Meanins And Representations Flashcards
What is hegemony?
How a social group can use language to get other people to accept its way of seeing the world as natural.
How do dominant groups in society seek to win the consent of subordinate groups?
Through hegemony.
What is an example of hegemony?
How disabled people are represented in media.
What is ideology?
A set or system of related ideas.
What does it mean to stigmatise?
To mark something or someone out as shameful or disgraceful.
What is reappropriation?
Reclaiming a word or phrase that has come to mean something insulting and using it as if it’s normal or even complementary.
What is semantic derogation?
The sense of negative meaning or connotation that some lexical items have attached to them.
What is semantic deterioration?
The process by which negative connotations have attached lexical items.
What are stereotypes?
Oversimplified representation of a person, group, institution, or event.
