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Gender, Discourse and Ideology in ItalianAn Overview of Grammatical Gender in Italian

Gender, Discourse and Ideology in Italian: An Overview of Grammatical Gender in Italian [Grammatical gendered languages, such as Italian have a lexical, morphological and syntactic system that allows for the formation of gender in the language. A classification of how the Italian gender-specific grammar works and how it is manipulated to serve the ‘male as a norm’ discursive status quo is offered in this chapter. Telling examples show how masculine and feminine nouns are seen through the theoretical framework of markedness, where the ‘usual’ and ‘known’ is unmarked—masculine turned generics—and the ‘unusual’ and ‘unknown’ is marked—feminine terms emerging from a changing society. Grammatical gendered patterns become social gendered phenomena in what can be labelled ‘masculine as a norm’, through unmarked masculines, versatile masculines and other language usages which tend to hide women.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Gender, Discourse and Ideology in ItalianAn Overview of Grammatical Gender in Italian

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
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978-3-319-96555-0
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39 –80
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10.1007/978-3-319-96556-7_2
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[Grammatical gendered languages, such as Italian have a lexical, morphological and syntactic system that allows for the formation of gender in the language. A classification of how the Italian gender-specific grammar works and how it is manipulated to serve the ‘male as a norm’ discursive status quo is offered in this chapter. Telling examples show how masculine and feminine nouns are seen through the theoretical framework of markedness, where the ‘usual’ and ‘known’ is unmarked—masculine turned generics—and the ‘unusual’ and ‘unknown’ is marked—feminine terms emerging from a changing society. Grammatical gendered patterns become social gendered phenomena in what can be labelled ‘masculine as a norm’, through unmarked masculines, versatile masculines and other language usages which tend to hide women.]

Published: Sep 5, 2018

Keywords: Gendered Language; sexismSexism; Masculine Form; Feminine Form; Male Firstness

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