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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337741903321

Autore

Formato Federica

Titolo

Gender, Discourse and Ideology in Italian / / by Federica Formato

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-319-96556-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 299 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality

Classificazione

Fi.01

Disciplina

306.440945

Soggetti

Sociolinguistics

Romance languages

Discourse analysis

Sociology

Identity politics

Critical criminology

Language and Gender

Romance Languages

Discourse Analysis

Gender Studies

Politics and Gender

Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction to the study of gender in Italian -- Chapter 2: An overview of grammatical gender in Italian -- Chapter 3: Feminine forms between recommendations and usages -- Chapter 4: Women in the public sphere: gendered language -- Chapter 5: Women, crime and gender in the private sphere: Femminicidio -- Chapter 6: Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses gendered language in Italian, shedding light on how the Italian language constructs and reproduces the social imbalance between women and men, and presenting indirect and direct instances of asymmetrical constructions of gender in public and private roles. The author examines linguistic treatments of women in politics and the media, as well as the gendered crime of femminicidio, i.e. the killing of



women by their (former) partners. Through the combination of corpus linguistics, surveys, and discourse analysis, she establishes a new approach to the study of gendered Italian, a framework which can be applied to other languages and epistemological sites. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language and gender, discourse analysis, Italian and other Romance languages. Federica Formato is an independent scholar who has taught linguistics at various UK universities. She has published on the topics of direct and indirect instances of sexism in Italian from quantitative and qualitative perspectives, and gender and language in the law. Her research interests include gender, politics, violence against women and corpus linguistics.