Instances derived from the need for nonsexist use of language and the new sensibility toward a broader language that considers the expressive needs of all kinds of identities are still scarcely discussed in L2/LS Italian teaching. Despite numerous recommendations and reflections to promote inclusive language, there seems to be a lack of involvement in classrooms on the part of teaching staff, who either feel the topic as foreign or lack appropriate tools to deal with it in a relevant way. In this paper, we review some linguistic issues within L2/LS Italian textbooks that represent potential obstacles to plural expression of identities, in particular: the exclusive binary approach to grammatical gender description and the extensive use of the unmarked masculine to indicate mixed groups or even female subjects. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate some of the limitations of teaching materials, to raise a useful debate to draw lines of intervention for those who use them daily.
University of Malaga, Spain - ORCID: 0000-0001-5777-6393
University of Turin, Italy - ORCID: 0009-0005-0857-2577
Titolo del capitolo
Linguaggio inclusivo: limiti e potenzialità di uso nei manuali di italiano L2/Ls
Autori
Simona Frabotta, Manuela Manera
Lingua
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0484-2.08
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Educazione all’uguaglianza di genere ed educazione linguistica
Curatori
Elisabetta Jafrancesco, Ivana Fratter, Ida Tucci
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
164
Anno di pubblicazione
2024
Copyright
© 2024 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0484-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0483-5
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0484-2
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0485-9
Collana
Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca
ISSN della collana
2704-6249
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5870