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Capitolo | 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.


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Presentato: 04 Luglio 2024 | Accettato: 19 Novembre 2024 | Pubblicato 13 Dicembre 2024 | Lingua: it

Keywords Grammatical genderGender neutralGender biasMisersky scoreUnmarked masculine


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