O Preconceito no uso do Léxico

Abstract

This article shows the first concrete results from a lexicological and lexicographical research for an interdisciplinar study applied in social groups with the objective o f confirming and elucidating the prejudices in lexical usage, which derive from an interference in the relationship between sign and meaning. Since the result presents “wease” lexical units, from a lexicological and lexicographical standpoint, the process development of prejudice in lexical usage is a phenomenon wich has ethial grounds on the structure of socio-cultural relations