@inbook{cdff19fde0ee49d89297a50b5f565b0c,
title = "Lingua, linguaggio, genere e inclusivit{\`a}: conceptualising language and gender in Italian.",
abstract = "In this chapter, I explain how terminology has been used in Italian to study: a. gendered language, i.e., feminisation of job-titles in traditionally masculine spaces, and b. gender-inclusive language, i.e. strategies used to refer to non-binary people or to address genericity. The terminology is first seen through the existing work done since the 1980s, covering the two conceptualisation of gender – binary and non-binary. Subsequently, I conduct a thorough a quanti-tative investigation, examining the corpus Italian Trends (2014-today) avail-able through SketchEngine; results show that some terms are stable through-out the 10 years investigated while others emerge later, e.g. schwa. Schwa is used as a metonym for gender-inclusive language, being the strategy that cap-tured the attention of speakers, critics and linguists. Because of this, schwa has also become a political tool that far-right newspapers use to attack the left and more specifically, Elly Schlein, the first female secretary of Partito Demo-cratico. This is investigated in the second part of the analysis.",
author = "Federica Formato",
note = "Not Yet Published",
year = "2025",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783031912306",
series = "Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
editor = "Falco Pfalzgraf",
booktitle = "Gender-neutral, gender-fair, gender-inclusive",
edition = "1",
}