~Una ricerca sul campo: Università, scelte e pregiudizi linguistici
by Catia Leonetti
The primary objective of this sociolinguistic study is to investigate the notion of “verbosity” traditionally associated with women’s language. A secondary aim is to explore whether this stereotype influences women’s decisions to select certain university majors potentially leading them to assume they are naturally more talkative because of their gender. Specifically, the study asks whether there is a correlation between verbosity, gender, and the discursive nature of particular academic fields,
