A Case Study of the Associated Meanings of ‘Char’ from Male, Female, Lesbian, Gay Perspectives and the Notion of Common Groud

A CASE STUDY OF THE ASSOCIATED MEANINGS OF ‘CHAR’

FROM MALE, FEMALE, LESBIAN, GAY PERSPECTIVES

AND THE NOTION OF COMMON GROUD

Mark Jester M. Lim

2010-59597

B.A. Communication Arts

Ms. Andrea Anne Baldonado

COMA 104 - Instructor

A socio-linguistic study

A partial fulfilment of the requirements for COMA 104 - Language and Culture

SY 2011-2012

October 2011

Chapter 1

RATIONALE

The choice and use of any word to a certain communication situation influence the way we understand that word and the mode of identifying the kind of situation that we are in conveys a great deal of information about ourselves, and our audience. While at the same time, we also usually decipher and acknowledge the way others would use and mean any word. And for a language with sea of words, like from the time we wake up listening to the radio, reading the newspaper, creating term papers, talking with our family, colleagues, and friends. Certainly we are using many words knowing that communication is a need. Words are the central feature of our language, personality, and society. And it’s time that we are going to start taking these words seriously and use them as tools in understanding its true worth, on how and why we use them, and what do these words really mean.

This research introduces the point of person’s associations and use of words in relation to gender. The link between word use and gender has been extensively studied. Differences in women’s and men’s use of words have received widespread attention within the scientific community, linguistic studies, as well as in the popular media. And by the ability to reflect on one's own thoughts, and hence on one's self, adds a new dimension to self-discovery, particularly of one's sexual identity, and that the third sex community is not an exception to the linking of the use of words and gender.

Gay lingo is a vernacular language derived from...