Gender, Discourse and Ideology in Italian

• Main Author: Formato, Federica (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality
• Subjects: Sociolinguistics.; Romance languages.; Discourse analysis.; Sociology.; Identity politics.; Critical criminology.; Language and Gender.; Romance Languages.; Discourse Analysis.; Gender Studies.; Politics and Gender.; Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime.

This book analyses gendered language in Italian, shedding light on how the Italian language constructs and reproduces the social imbalance between women and men, and presenting indirect and direct instances of asymmetrical constructions of gender in public and private roles. The author examines ling...