connotations and

1.  Girl, woman, lady,female and laddette.

The word girl has connoation of an innocent child whom is feeble and young. The reason for these connotations are due to its common use of the word when it comes to school children and the naming of gender for the younger ages. The lexical choice of woman creates the connotation of sophistication and a form of regality. The word 'lady' creates connotations of an older woman who is living a life of wealth and is upper class. The word 'female' gives the connotatitions of a genertic labelling of the gender and can also give connotations of feminists and strongly empowered women. Lastly, the word 'ladette' gives  the impression of quite a boyish , butch women who takes the personality of a bold man.

2.  Mature, old , experienced , senior and eldery.

The word 'mature' creates the connotations of an older persopn who has experienced a lot of things in life and posses good knowledge from lessons that they have learned in life. The lexical choice of ' old' makes you think of an old ,shiverelled up woman , someone that has pasted a certain age in life and is no longer the person , or posses the charsima they use to in their younger days. 'Experienced' gives the connoatations of someone who has been through many events in life and has lived their own life to the full and has gained many life lessons on the way. The word 'senior' creates the thoughts of an older citizen who is well mannered and presented is a formal manner. 'Eldery' gives the connotations of an old person who is ageing gracefully and has still kept the integrity from their youth.

Euphemisms


To let someone go – this term is used as it is a nicer version to say someone in a business gets fires or sacked.

Senior citizen – this is used as it is nicer to call an old person this instead of old. This shows more respect.