Sui suffissati in -essa riferiti a entità femminili. Forme e valori in prospettiva storica

Publikation: Beitrag in FachzeitschriftForschungsartikelBeigetragenBegutachtung

Abstract

The goal of this contribution is to shed light on Italian nouns ending in -essa, focusing on the ones referring to female animals and women (such as 'elefantessa' and 'duchessa'). Firstly, we describe the semantic and formal properties of these nouns. In the second part of the contribution we investigate when, how and why the negative values typically associated with nouns ending in -essa arose, highlighting the formal, semantic and pragmatic parameters that trigger these values. Our investigation is based both on metalinguistic comments, which make it possible to reconstruct the perception of essa-ending nouns throughout the history of Italian, and on a qualitative analysis of the ways in which 19th century journals and magazines use the occupational term professoressa.

Details

OriginalspracheItalienisch
Seiten (von - bis)257-288
Seitenumfang32
Fachzeitschrift Lingua e stile : ... rivista di storia della lingua italiana / ed. con un contributo del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
JahrgangLVI
Ausgabenummer2
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2021
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

Scopus 85128213013

Schlagworte

Forschungsprofillinien der TU Dresden

DFG-Fachsystematik nach Fachkollegium

Fächergruppen, Lehr- und Forschungsbereiche, Fachgebiete nach Destatis

Schlagwörter

  • female roles and occupational terms, historical lexicography, text analysis