Le scritture femminili nella storia linguistica italiana: orientamenti teorici, modelli formali, casi paradigmatici

rita fresu

2019-01-01

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Abstract

The paper proposes a (critical and reasoned) systematization of the guidelines adopted so far in the historical and sociolinguistic field on female writings (with reference to those between the Middle Ages and early modern times), starting from the theoretical reflection on the relationship between language and gender, and from the relative implications regarding the processes of education and acculturation of women. It then dwells on a couple of paradigmatic specimens, referring to the field of religious writings (and, in particular, to the text genre of mystical autobiography and monastic chronicles) with the intention of showing the importance of studying female autographs (also) sub linguistic species.