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Jezik invalidnosti kao društveni problem kroz istoriju
Disability language as a social problem through history

Author(s): Ljubomir Petrović
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Centar za unapređivanje pravnih studija
Keywords: persons with disabilities; disability language; discrimination; inadequacy of politically correct expressions

Summary/Abstract: The status of persons with disabilities in the Serbian and Yugoslavian society have been shaped by contempt, the absence of moral relation between society and people in the condition of social needs, state policy and prejudice. A mixture and set of social prejudice towards persons with disabilities have been expressed through the disability language which has shaped the disconnection of persons with disabilities by labeling. Many of expressions have progressed from the description of a medical condition of a person with disability in the assortment of a language of obscenity and insults. Other terms do not leave the basic field of meaning but they describe disability as an integral part of a person. The disability language have been shaped by various ideologies which have been created based on religious, medical, language, even ethical preconceptions, that have indirectly influenced the prolongation of implementing the moral social policy towards per sons with disabilities.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 77-92
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian