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Language and Representation Discuss the connections between English Vocabulary and attitudes to one or more of the following Gender Race Disability Sexuality. Overtime attitudes to word meanings have dramatically changed over the years, with vocabulary being given new connotations and meanings. For example not many years ago it was a common expression to say when somebody was happy and full of life that they were a 'gay' person. This word has undergone a semantic change and we now associate this term with homosexuality. This term has gone through a pejoration, a down grading change in the meaning of a word. These changes of word meanings can cause problems within society, as different generations have different understanding to their meaning e.g. somebody being called 'gay' may be offended if they were not of this sexual preference. The modern vocabulary tends to refer to 'gay' people in a lexical symmetry way ie they will tend to...

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