Il sessismo nella collocazione del lessico dei manuali di italiano L2

Abstract

In this essay we show research results on the presence of sexist linguistic usages within school manuals related to the teaching of Italian as an L2, based on a representative sample of textbooks. In particular, a corpus has been created for a sample of 50 Italian L2 textbooks, selected with a publication date after 2015, in order to evaluate the most recent language solutions. This corpus has been questioned about the syntactic placement of some words (“mother”, “father”, “lord”, “lady”) and areas of life (work, professions and home) selected on the basis of potentially sexist employment (Nitti, 2020).