Feminism, Corpus-assisted Research and Language Inclusivity

by Federica Formato

This Element presents an investigation into the use of the gender inclusive strategy schwa in a corpus of tweets; the schwa is employed in Italian to overcome grammatical (feminine and masculine) morphological inflections, having at its core linguistic and social binarism. The investigation is set in a country where LGBTQIA communities still face institutional discrimination, yet it is contextualised in the growing work on inclusivity discussed in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009517147
• ISBN13: 9781009517140
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"