Chapter La femminilizzazione dei nomi di professione e di cariche. Un problema recente?
In the ongoing debates about the feminization of professional titles and positions, one argument against it suggests that the "demand"; to feminize such titles, when attributed to women, is a recent phenomenon that contrasts with the thousand-year history of italian language. In reality, the feminiz...
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| author | Cortelazzo, Michele |
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| description | In the ongoing debates about the feminization of professional titles and positions, one argument against it suggests that the "demand"; to feminize such titles, when attributed to women, is a recent phenomenon that contrasts with the thousand-year history of italian language. In reality, the feminization of professional titles follows a general rule of gender distinction in Italian. It has only been strongly challenged in recent decades and primarily with regard to professions associated with prestige or considered prestigious. For example, in the musical field, the legitimacy of direttrice d’orchestra as a feminine form is debated, whereas names like pianista, violinista, and clarinettista are not similarly contested. From a historical perspective, despite the limited evidence due to the underrepresentation of women in prestigious professions until recent times, feminization has been documented in some cases as early as the fourteenth century. An intriguing source that confirms the existence of feminine forms for a wide range of trades (and professions) that were historically male-dominated is the General Population Census of 1901. This contribution explores and discusses some of the feminine forms documented in texts of the past. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1502932025-07-21T15:44:04Z Chapter La femminilizzazione dei nomi di professione e di cariche. Un problema recente? Cortelazzo, Michele Job titles History of the italian language Feminization of language thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning::CJA Language teaching theory and methods thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning::CJA Language teaching theory and methods thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies In the ongoing debates about the feminization of professional titles and positions, one argument against it suggests that the "demand"; to feminize such titles, when attributed to women, is a recent phenomenon that contrasts with the thousand-year history of italian language. In reality, the feminization of professional titles follows a general rule of gender distinction in Italian. It has only been strongly challenged in recent decades and primarily with regard to professions associated with prestige or considered prestigious. For example, in the musical field, the legitimacy of direttrice d’orchestra as a feminine form is debated, whereas names like pianista, violinista, and clarinettista are not similarly contested. From a historical perspective, despite the limited evidence due to the underrepresentation of women in prestigious professions until recent times, feminization has been documented in some cases as early as the fourteenth century. An intriguing source that confirms the existence of feminine forms for a wide range of trades (and professions) that were historically male-dominated is the General Population Census of 1901. This contribution explores and discusses some of the feminine forms documented in texts of the past. 2025-01-22T20:12:37Z 2025-01-22T20:12:37Z 2024-12-20T12:47:05Z 2024 chapter ONIX_20241220_9791221504842_468 2704-5870 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/96675 9791221504842 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/150293 ita Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca open access image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/96675/1/43222.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0484-2.05 10.36253/979-12-215-0484-2.05 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9791221504842 10 Florence open access |
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