Open AccessTHE SEXIST DIMENSION OF OBSCENE WORDS IN ITALIAN CINEPANETTONE COMEDIES
Author(s) -
Nataša Vučenović
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
folia linguistica et litteraria/folia linguistica et litteraria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
0eISSN - 2337-0955
pISSN - 1800-8542
DOI - 10.31902/fll.33.2020.12
Subject(s) - praise , psychology , offensive , social psychology , perception , value (mathematics) , gender studies , sociology , management , machine learning , computer science , economics , neuroscience
This paper examines sexist connotations of obscene terms used by men in order to depict women in a negative way, but also the terms whose pragmatic function is not to offend but to give a praise or a compliment, which in a sexist perception ascribes them a positive value. The analysis is based on a corpus composed of four italian cinepanettone comedies. Offensive terms will be classified and observed in accordance with the divison into sexist derogatory slurs and sexist objectifying slurs proposed in the study Social acceptability of derogatory sexist and objectifying sexist slurs across contexts from 2015. Besides the analysis of sexist terms, the paper will try to confront the terms that men and women use to descibe sexual act. In reference to the theoretical basis of the feminist linguistics, the results will confirm that women and men use different terms to describe sexual act and that this language difference can be interpreted as a result of a socially imposed divison of gender roles.