Shielding Women Against Status Loss: The Masculine Form and Its Alternatives in the Italian Language

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 311-320

  Merkel, Elisa ^a   Maass, Anne ^a   Frommelt, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

gender fair language; nonsexist language; social status; suffix " essa"

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864806994     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: 15526526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X12446599     Document Type: Article

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