ERIC Number: ED611639
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Publication Date: 2021
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Language Used as a Form of Power, Privilege, and a Force
Pippins, Esther; Salcedo, Abbie; Toler-Hoffman, Chelsea; Weldon-Caron, Rachael
American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, Paper presented at the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education 2020 Conference (Online, Oct 27-30, 2020)
For centuries, language has been used by the dominant culture both as a means of constructing power and as a way of maintaining it. Race, language, gender, and sexuality can all contribute to reinforcing one's identity as an "other." In doing so the dominant culture can create and reinforce blame and the perpetuation of minority groups as the "others" using language. Using the method of structuralism, this study aims to demonstrate the social construct in which language used by dominate culture validates the power, privilege, and force of dehumanizing language in the form of "othering." [For the complete volume, "American Association for Adult and Continuing Education Inaugural 2020 Conference Proceedings (Online, October 27-30, 2020)," see ED611534.]
Descriptors: Language Usage, Power Structure, Minority Groups, Identification (Psychology), Racial Bias, Gender Bias, Social Bias, College Students
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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