Being differently abled: Disability through the lens of hierarchy of binaries and Bitso-lebe-ke Seromo. Paul L. Leshota I ; Maximus M. Sefotho II. The current wave of anti-discrimination on disability issues, calls for constant re-examination of the language and the appellations we use in respect of people with disabilities. METHOD : The study took the form of a literature review using the optic of Derrida's hierarchy of binaries and the Sesotho proverb, ' Bitso-lebe-ke seromo ', A bad name is ominous to explore the connotations of the term disability as a disenfranchising social construct.
RESULTS : Read through the lens of Derrida's idea of difference, disability as a concept has no inherent meaning and its meaning derives from its being differentiated from other concepts. Viewed through the lens of Bitso-lebe-ke seromo and read in the context of its deep symbolical significance, the term disability holds immense spiritual power. As such it embodies imperfection, incapacitation and inferiority.
Not only is it ominous, it places upon people with disability the perpetual mark of unattractiveness. Against this background the term differently abled seems to convey more empowering overtones than the term disability.
Keywords : being differently abled; disability; hierarchy of binaries; Bitso-lebe-ke seromo ; naming; identity formation. Language has been seen as more than just an instrument of communication to convey ideas between people. Language, in some cultures, has served to shape people's behaviours Wittgenstein , while in other cultures it has been perceived as having a causal effect, that is, to bring about what it signifies.
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The shared belief of the above voices is that the process of naming creates a subject whose sense of self is connected with the society's definition Galvin In this way, individuals are recruited into identifying with labels and identities created not by them but by society. To the question, 'What's in the name? Naming or labelling, as Lynch observed, is more than just an identity marker. It is a political act with the power to include and exclude Barnes By means of naming, which is a linguistic device, one is subjected to someone else by control and dependence.
