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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies all with you, glorione. how are you? been thinking of you. xoxox asd >italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies > >>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 > > >______________________________ > >Gloria Monti, Ph.D. >University of California >Porter Faculty Services >Film and Digital Media Department >1156 High Street >Santa Cruz, CA 95064 >e-mail: [log in to unmask] >voice-mail: 831-459-1498 >fax: 831-459-3535 > >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* > >********************************************************************** >To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME >to: [log in to unmask] >To send a message to the list, address it to: >[log in to unmask] >To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies >to: [log in to unmask] >In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: >[log in to unmask] >For further information, visit our web site: >http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html