LiVVaL

Linguaggio e Variazione | Variation in Language

Lingua inclusiva: forme, funzioni, atteggiamenti e percezioni

crossmark logo

open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Anna-Maria De Cesare - Technische Universität Dresden - email
  • Giuliana Giusti - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile

Abstract

This volume includes seven contributions devoted to inclusive language, understood in two interrelated meanings: the inclusion of women in discourses dominated by masculine forms and the inclusion of people who do not identify with binary gender identities. The goal is to stimulate respectful and informed discussion about linguistic structures, with a focus on Italian. The research presented, based on qualitative and quantitative corpus analyses, psycholinguistics experimental studies and questionnaire-based sociolinguistic investigations, describes specific language varieties or text types, highlights the main structural differences between Italian and German, investigates the supposed neutrality of the so-called ‘unmarked’ (or even ‘inclusive’) masculine or the public perception of inclusive language, and reflects on the use of grammatical desinences in the construction of gender identity in chatbots. A concerning scenario emerges from all the contributions, particularly for the degree of visibility of women in Italian cultural discourse and for the lack of denotation of prestige associated to the female gender.

Keywords Institutional written communication • Public opinion • Gender • Stereotipi • Experimental methodology • Unmarked masculine • Medical Language • Non-binarism • Grammatical gender • Human-Machine Interaction • Non-binary identities • Corpus-based analysis • Gender generalization • Gender inclusive Language • Perception of gendered nouns • Misersky score • Maschile sovraesteso • Genere • Visibility of women in discourse • Chatbot • Empirical methodology • Schwa • Customer Service • Phonology • Avvocato • Italian Language • Gender neutral • Gender-Sensitive Language • German • Corpus Normativo Universitario • Italian • Nomina agentis • Twitter • Gender bias • Inclusive language terminology • Inclusive language • Gender Cues • Language practices • Perception • Morphology • Health literacy • Gender visibility

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-866-8 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-866-8 | Published Dec. 13, 2024 | Language it

Copyright © 2024 Anna-Maria De Cesare, Giuliana Giusti. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.