Empowerment and Social Justice
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The paper "Empowerment and social Justice" discusses that the study of language in this framework brings out the power it could unleash in controlling society, in creating divisions, in asserting justice principles, and in discriminating marginalised groups, in perpetuating the power structure.... The discriminating power of language is prevalent anywhere in all aspects of social life as reflected in terms like sexism, racism, and ageism.... However, that which unites 'signified' and 'signifier' together into a 'sign' differs in every language, because of language, as 'a means of communication', is socially contextualized giving it its 'social nature' – one of the 'inner characteristics' of language....