italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
all with you, glorione. how are you? been thinking of you.
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>italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
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>>Lorenzo Enriques:
> "una convenzione lessicografica internazionale, non solo italiana:
>ad esempio il Collins English Dictionary registra il lemma 'actor or
>(fem.) actress.'"
>
> Actress" e' inaccettabile perche' e' un gender marked term.
>Cito da Marilyn Schwartz, *Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing*
>(Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995) 21-23.
>
> Most English agent-nouns have a common-gender form applicable
>to both sexes: aviator, doctor, usher. The addition of feminine
>suffixes such as -trix, -ess, and -ette causes the common-gender form
>to acquire a predominantly masculine sense, while the feminine form
>(aviatrix, doctoress, usherette) becomes an auxiliary term. In such
>masculine/feminine pairings the feminine form often takes on a
>trivializing or pejorative connotation: poet/poetess, master/mistress.
>
> Gloria Monti
>
>
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>many years later, as he faced the firing squad, colonel aureliano buendía
>was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to
>discover ice.
>
>gabriel garcía márquez, *cien anos de soledad*
>
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