Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
I am interested in language and gender in Italy/Italian. My research examines sexist language used to reconstruct the traditional arragement in Italian society (men/public - women/private) and failed and successful attempts to subvert this. Using quantitative (corpus linguistics) and qualitative methods, I explore generic terms (grammatically masculine) to refer to female politicians, sexual terms to insult them. I also worked on media language when describing the gendered crime of femminicidio.
Scholarly biography
I obtained my PhD at Lancaster University in 2014. Since then I have been teaching several branches of linguistics in different UK universities. My teaching expertise ranges from language,gender and sexuality to multimodality and corpus linguistics.
Supervisory Interests
I am interested in supervising students in the following disciplines (or combination of these):
- language, gender and sexuality
- corpus linguistics
- multimodality
- discourses around racism, sexism, transphobia and omophobia
- language describing violence against women in UK and other parts of the world.
Please do contact me if you are interested in spending a visiting period for your PhD research.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Lancaster University
Keywords
- PC Romance languages
- gender
- language and gender
- Italian
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Research Output 2016 2019
Uno: A corpus linguistic investigation of intersubjectivity and gender
Formato, F. & Tantucci, V., 16 Nov 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Journal of Language and Discrimination.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Gender, Discourse and Ideology in Italian
Formato, F., 2018, Palgrave Macmillan. 299 p. (Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality)Research output: Book/Report › Book - authored
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discourse analysis
Ci sono troie in giro in Parlamento che farebbero di tutto': Italian female politicians seen through a sexual lens
Formato, F., 13 Sep 2017, In : Gender and Language. 11, 3, p. 389-414Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Linguistic markers of sexism in the Italian media: a case study of ministra and ministro
Formato, F., 2016, In : Corpora. 11, 3, p. 371-399Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Activities 2019 2019
Journal of Gender and Language (Journal)
Federica Formato (Editor)1 Sep 2019 → …
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work
“Be a man – grow a beard”: Investigation into public responses to the Gillette advert on YouTube and Reddit
Mandie Iveson (Presenter), Federica Formato (Presenter)30 May 2019
Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation