The practicality and applicability of slurs made me think differently about why pejoratives and words in general can take on, to use the expression, a life of their own. The lead-up or ground setting before this unit, speech-actions was particularly interesting and I wish we had spent more time on that. I began thinking of speech and language much more different after being exposed to something which seemed fairly common place, yet something I had not considered or given serious thought to. Both of these units made me think about how language is used and the various implications/causes which result from it. I had always held language in less serious regards, taking it largely for granted, however these two units in particular changed how I perceive and think about language and its use.
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