The Acceptability of Feminine Job Titles in Italian Newspaper Articles

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_4713
dc.contributor.author	Castenetto Giorgia
dc.contributor.author	Ondelli Stefano
dc.title	The Acceptability of Feminine Job Titles in Italian Newspaper Articles. A Survey Involving Italian Native Speakers
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper describes a procedure to assess the acceptability of gender-inclusive linguistic structures. Informants were asked to provide an overall linguistic assessment of extracts from newspaper articles while unaware of the final objective of the survey, i.e. eliciting their opinions on the masculine and feminine forms of professions and titles. Although opinions varied, the results show an increase in the acceptability of feminine forms, probably strengthened by their frequent use in the media. Furthermore, those forms provide a solution to the morphological and syntactic inconsistencies considered by the informants as a violation of Italian grammar rules.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni del Comitato Unico di Garanzia dell’Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-29
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-479-0/the-acceptability-of-feminine-job-titles-in-italia/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-478-3/004
dc.identifier.issn	2724-4652
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-5713
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-479-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-478-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Feminine Job Titles
dc.subject	Feminine Job Titles
dc.subject	Gender-Inclusive Language
dc.subject	Gender-Inclusive Language
dc.subject	Italian Language and Linguistics
dc.subject	Italian Language and Linguistics
dc.subject	Italian Morphology
dc.subject	Italian Morphology
dc.subject	Italian Sociolinguistics
dc.subject	Italian Sociolinguistics
dc.subject	Survey Methods
dc.subject	Survey Methods

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The Acceptability of Feminine Job Titles in Italian Newspaper Articles

A Survey Involving Italian Native Speakers

Giorgia Castenetto Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italia

Stefano Ondelli Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italia

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This paper describes a procedure to assess the acceptability of gender-inclusive linguistic structures. Informants were asked to provide an overall linguistic assessment of extracts from newspaper articles while unaware of the final objective of the survey, i.e. eliciting their opinions on the masculine and feminine forms of professions and titles. Although opinions varied, the results show an increase in the acceptability of feminine forms, probably strengthened by their frequent use in the media. Furthermore, those forms provide a solution to the morphological and syntactic inconsistencies considered by the informants as a violation of Italian grammar rules.

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978-88-6969-479-0

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Keywords: Feminine Job Titles • Gender-Inclusive Language • Italian Morphology • Italian Language and Linguistics • Survey Methods • Italian Sociolinguistics

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