Gender, Discourse and Ideology in Italian

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-07213-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 299 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 416 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Formato, Federica

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.