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Chapter | Verso una tipologia di esponenti linguistici del genere femminile

Verso una tipologia di esponenti linguistici del genere femminile

L’italiano e il polacco a confronto

Abstract

The present study focuses on the linguistic category of gender conceived as a set of any kind of linguistic means and devices encoding the information of the natural gender (sex) of a human referent. The semantic core of the examination is the extralinguistic and ontological ‘male vs female’ distinction. Our corpus-based analysis aims to describe and compare various linguistic markers of a female referent, as opposed to a male referent and to a group of mixed, male and female, referents, available in two Indo-European languages, i.e. Italian and Polish. The proposed typology of female gender indicators includes morphological, syntactic, lexical and contextual (semantic-pragmatic) cues.


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Submitted: May 7, 2019 | Accepted: May 23, 2019 | Published Dec. 18, 2019 | Language: it

Keywords Linguistic gender • Female referent • Italian • Polish • Natural gender • Linguistic coding

Copyright © 2019 Agnieszka Latos. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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