Italian. Gender and female visibility in Italian

Marcato, Gianna; Thüne, Eva-Maria

doi:10.1075/impact.10.14mar

In:Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men
Edited by Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bußmann
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 10] 2002
► pp. 187–217

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Italian. Gender and female visibility in Italian

Gianna Marcato | University of Padua, Italy

Eva-Maria Thüne | University of Bologna, Italy

Published online: 10 April 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.10.14mar

1.Introduction 2. Categories of gender in Italian 2.1 Grammatical gender 2.2 The structure of Italian human nouns 2.3 Derivation 2.4 Compounding 2.5 Agreement 2.6 Pronominalisation 3. The semantics of human nouns 3.1 Semantic loading 3.2 Semantic asymmetries 3.3 Masculine generics 3.4 Proper names 4. The representation of women and men in selected text types 4.1 Grammars 4.2 Teaching materials 4.3 Newspapers 4.4 Literary texts 4.5 Proverbs 5. Female and male discourse 6. Language politics 6.1 Language use and language politics 6.2 Splitting 6.3 Formation of new agentives 7. Conclusion Notes References

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