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Apr. 18th, 2008 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyDamn, damn and more damn.
There was a concept that I was going to use in my essay, but I can't find the supporting quote I was sure existed in my linguistic theory book.
Essentially my argument was that the use of 'gay' as a perjorative unrelated to homosexuality (for example, "these trainers are so gay") is harmful, since it links the term 'gay' with the concept of negativity, whether or not the pupil is being intentionally homophobic. I was sure there was something about that in mah book, but the closest I can get is de Saussure's work on signifier and signified and the arbitrary nature of linguistic signs, which isn't quite what I'm looking for.
I'm sure it's been pointed out somewhere or other but that means more time spent looking, which is time I can't spare right now.
*pouts*
I guess I'll get on with reading what I have got, and move onto that later if I manage to scrape some time together at the end.
Heh.
There was a concept that I was going to use in my essay, but I can't find the supporting quote I was sure existed in my linguistic theory book.
Essentially my argument was that the use of 'gay' as a perjorative unrelated to homosexuality (for example, "these trainers are so gay") is harmful, since it links the term 'gay' with the concept of negativity, whether or not the pupil is being intentionally homophobic. I was sure there was something about that in mah book, but the closest I can get is de Saussure's work on signifier and signified and the arbitrary nature of linguistic signs, which isn't quite what I'm looking for.
I'm sure it's been pointed out somewhere or other but that means more time spent looking, which is time I can't spare right now.
*pouts*
I guess I'll get on with reading what I have got, and move onto that later if I manage to scrape some time together at the end.
Heh.
