2024

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Formato, F. The workings of discrimination: Gender-inclusive language between acceptance and opposition. An introduction. Journal of Language and Discrimination, 8(2), 135-140. https://doi.org/10.3138/jld-2024-0101 

This is part of a special issue where I acted as a guest editor.

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Formato, F. Feminism, corpus-assisted research and language inclusivity. Cambridge University Press.

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Formato, F. How is gendered language commented on and explained? An overview of speakers supporting or rebelling against a gendered system-justification frame in Italian in Venuti, Vigo and Campisi (eds). Strategies of inclusion and exclusion in online and offline interaction. Peter Lang Publisher.​

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Formato, F and Iveson, M. “We need men to be MEN”: constructions of hegemonic masculinities in online responses to the 2019 We Believe Gillette advert. In Mitra, B, Young, S. and Mirza, M. (eds), Gender in the Digital Sphere: Representation, Engagement, and Expression.  Rowman and Littlefield, p. 145 164.

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2023

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Formato, F. & Somma, A.L. Inclusive Language in Italy: A sociolinguistic overview. Mediterranean and EuropeanLinguistic Anthropology,  5(1): 22-40. Available here

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Formato, F. . Femminicidio in Italian televised news: the case study of La Vita in Diretta. In Boyle, K. and Berridge, S. (eds) Routledge Companion on Gender, Media and Violence, p.

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2022

Iveson, M. & Formato, F. (2022) Men of today, soyboys of tomorrow: Constructions of masculinities in YouTube responses to Gillette’s The Best Men Can Be. Discourse, Context & Media (special issue). 49, 1006-28.

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2021

Potts, A. and Formato, F. (2021). Women victims of men who murder:XML mark-up for nomination, collocation and frequency analysis of language of the law. In Baxter, J. and Anguri, J. (eds), The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality. Routledge.

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2020

Formato, F. (2020) Production and Reception of Fathers' Construction of their Daughter’s Sexuality on Twitter. Critical discouse studies. Available here https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405904.2020.1816480 

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Formato, F. and Tantucci, V. (2020). Uno: A corpus linguistic investigation of intersubjectivity and gender. Journal of Language and Discrimination. Available here

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2019

Formato, F. (2019). Gender, Ideology and Discourse in Italian. Palgrave, Buy it here

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2017

Formato, F.  (2017).  ‘Ci     sono     troie     in     giro     in     Parlamento     che     farebbero     di tutto.’  Italian female politicians seen  through a  sexual lens. Gender and Language, 11.3. Available here

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2016

Formato, F. (2016) Linguistic markers of sexism in the Italian media: a case study of ministra and ministro, Corpora. 11.3. pp.3 71-399. Available here 

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Formato, F. (2016). Book review of The Politics of Fear. What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean, London: Sage, 2015, pp. 256, by Ruth Wodak. Journal of Gender and Power. Available here.

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2014

Formato, F. (2014). Language use and gender in the Italian parliament. PhD thesis. Lancaster University. Available here.

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Formato, F. (2014). Book review of Digital Politics in Western Democracies: A Comparative Study, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, pp. 304, by Cristian Vaccari. Contemporary Italian Politics. Available here.