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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2004  
         
  Article:   LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY MISOGYNY, HOMOPHOBIA AND HETEROSEXISM.

Authors:  ALINA PREDA.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  We use language to play games of power and status with one another. The way we use it, publicly and privately, mirrors our understanding of ourselves and the society we inhabit. Consequently, any interpretation of semantic language change must take into account changes in the social and historical context, in people’s mentality. But even though we may be aware of misogyny, heterosexism and homophobia in society and in language, the remedy is still not obvious. Some do not even think a remedy is needed, and until this need becomes apparent to the majority things will not change. The language war and the war against stereotypes, prejudice and hate of “the other” still have a long way to go before, hopefully, ending in integration and reconciliation, once we have managed to find a new common language and a new understanding of the world and life.  
         
     
         
         
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