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.
| ISBN: | 9783319965550 |
| Publication date: | 17th September 2018 |
| Author: | Federica Formato |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing AG |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 299 pages |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality |
| Genres: |
Sociolinguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Gender studies, gender groups Politics and government Crime and criminology |