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Italian. Gender and female visibility in Italian
- Author(s): Gianna Marcato 1 and Eva-Maria Thüne 2
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 University of Padua, Italy2 University of Bologna, Italy
- Source: Gender Across Languages , pp 187-217
- Publication Date April 2002
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
- Affiliations: 1: University of Padua, Italy; 2: University of Bologna, Italy
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