The Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh and the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with SIS – Society for Italian Studies, are delighted to welcome Vera Gheno to the University of Edinburgh on Friday, 26th January 2024 at 5:00 pm.
Vera Gheno is a “social-linguista” with over twenty years of experience in digital communication. Her talk “To Inclusivity and Beyond: the Quest For a Broad Language” focuses on issues of language and gender and on the debates they have generated in Italy over the past years: from linguistic sexism to the role and visibility of women, and then to the representation of non-binary identities. Recent suggestions in Italian to move beyond the overextended masculine to address mixed-gender groups and non-binary people are analysed (from the asterisk to the schwa), in parallel with similar attempts made in other languages.
Vera Gheno is a sociolinguist and a translator from Hungarian. She has collaborated with the Accademia della Crusca for twenty years and Zanichelli for four years. Gheno teaches at the University of Florence and is the author of scientific and popular articles and numerous essays on the social evolution of the Italian language, such as Femminili singolari. Il femminismo è nelle parole (Feminine singular. Femminism in words), Guida pratica all’italiano scritto (senza diventare grammarnazi) (A practical guide to written Italian (without becoming a grammar nazi)) and Social-linguistica. Italiano e italiani dei social network (Social-linguistics. Italian and Italian social networks). Her latest book is L’antidoto. 15 comportamenti che avvelenano la nostra vita in rete e come evitarli (The antidote. 15 behavious that poison our online life and how to avoid them).
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