Theme: Representation and stereotypes
Submitted by: Valentina Artusi
Language: Italian
Reference:
Sensales, G.; Arenia, A., & Di Ciccio, G. (2019). Sindaca o sindaco? Rappresentazioni di Virginia Raggi e Chiara Appendino sulla stampa italiana. La Camera Blu. Rivista di Studi di Genere, (21). https://doi.org//10.6092/1827-9198/6667
Abstract:
The research is framed in the tradition of social representations, which assumes the strategic use of language to mask power relations. We explored the language by detecting the presence of specific linguistic devices in the representations of the two 5Stars mayors, Chiara Appendino and Virginia Raggi in the Italian daily press. The attention is on the agency attributed them, citing their words; on sexist or non-sexist language; on the valence (negative, sarcastic, neutral, positive) of the context of use of this language, and on its lexicographical characterization with respect to the two sexist / non-sexist forms. 810 titles were analyzed, published in the four months following the election of the two women mayors, from 10 newspapers. Statistical processing was carried out with SPSS and SPAD-T
