![]() These words are used as metaphors they denote something other than their obvious meaning. I will call these groups of words used by a specific community a “Communal Lexicon (CL).” This lexicon is the storehouse or repository of these defining words, how they are used and what they mean for that given community. ![]() It is the particular words that are used by a community that define it equivocally it is the community that gives meaning to those words. There is a bond that connects social change with lingual change there is a bilateral dynamic movement between the language of a given community and the existence and changes of that community. The changes that occur do so congruently. Furthermore, neither language nor social structure change independently from each other. Neither language nor community is static. ![]() Due to this, the individual is cut off from all communal and historic ties, thus stranding her on an island. Modernity is sterile with meaninglessness. ![]()
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