Series | LiVVaL
Edited book | Lingua inclusiva: forme, funzioni, atteggiamenti e percezioni
Chapter | Districare gli stereotipi dal genere semantico in italiano
Districare gli stereotipi dal genere semantico in italiano
Una ricerca psicolinguistica
Abstract
Our contribution is the adaptation to Italian of the study conducted on French by Richy and Burnett in 2021 («Démêler les effets des stéréotypes et le genre grammatical dans le biais masculin: une approche expérimentale») with the aim to answer two research questions: (i) To what extent, does the cultural bias influence the interpretation of a gender-neutral nominal expression? (ii) Can masculine nouns designating definite, specific individuals be interpreted as referring to either a man or a woman? Our results show that neutralized nominals are interpreted according to the gender bias, while masculine nominals are interpreted as just referring to men. This shows that in Italian, masculine role nouns do not refer to women and that neutralizing a gender language does not contrast gender inequalities.
Submitted: July 4, 2024 | Accepted: Nov. 19, 2024 | Published Dec. 13, 2024 | Language: it
Keywords Grammatical gender • Gender neutral • Gender bias • Misersky score • Unmarked masculine
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