On 09 April we held a meeting in Ferrara on language.
of the address by Luciana Tufan, promoter and publisher of the meeting (www.tufani.net)
taken from
FB profile Luciana Tufan
FB group "Gender Language and Language Policy"
I n the beginning was the Word of Luciana Tufan
Friday, April 9 was held in Room Arengo the Town Hall for a meeting entitled Ferrara What kind of language, promoted by the Committee of women elected to a municipality following my request. Officials of my speech below. When aff Ronta use the argument, or rather the non-use of the feminine in Italian, leading to the cancellation and devaluation of women, the most frequent response, even by women engaged politically, is: But there seems to be a problem? There are major issues. Not only is it a problem but actually the problem is, that from which all the others. If it is correct to seek to resolve the many different economic and social problems we are facing every day, But we must not forget that they are the consequences of something else and that if you are not aware of the case are the effects and not the deals you, even the problems are resolved never to recur periodically even with greater or lesser urgency. To clarify my statement I will need to take a step back: In the beginning was the word. That alone should make it clear what the word is the origin of everything, if we continue in the quote - In the beginning was the Word (...) and the Word was God (...) without him nothing was made of what exists - we see that when the word gets word of God, becomes law. The games have been made, confirmation religion e consolida quello che già da tempo è andato costruendosi. Se sostituiamo logos a verbo, possiamo infatti dire: in principio era il logos. Per la filosofia greca il logos è la fonte degli archetipi sulla cui base il mondo viene modellato. Il verbo “leghein”, da cui deriva il sostantivo “logos”, tra i tanti significati ha quelli di raccontare, enumerare, scegliere, nominare. Nominare è il modo in cui le cose vengono fatte esistere. Esiste ciò che è stato nominato. Ma nominare non è solo fare esistere, è anche ordinare, regolare. E mentre ordinare non a caso significa anche dare ordini, regolare significa anche imporre delle regole. Regole e ordini che servono a controllare. Il controllo è passato through words. The language, as it has gone facilities, was one of the forms of control of what scares. Initially afraid of what you do not understand why inexplicable or unpredictable natural phenomena, from weather to death. Forms of control of emotions and fears, using something to give rational explanations have been various expressions of culture which include philosophy, science, religion. Between what you do not understand why you are concerned and that includes the different from us. One of us who, in a patriarchal society such as Greek and Hebrew from which our language and our culture, males are in power. Several are strange and different by definition are women. Subject after the passage of patriarchy, are dangerous because they could rise up and be checked not only with violence but with the rationality of the culture and, if needed, with the irrationality of fear instilled in art, which replaces that primitive fears that they wanted to fight ( fiercely in the past has happened and continues to happen, with a violence that in recent times is becoming more and more out). With this quick and concise reference to the origins, for ease of exposition extremely simplified schematic, I wanted to highlight what I said at the beginning: the language is the basis of our behavior. If the language we use no appointment, we remove. Who is not named does not exist. The language we use has been made against us, confirming what I remember in different languages \u200b\u200b(almost all) about grammatical rules and the masculine, the feminine is the exception. Once again, the diversity But, even with this language we have inherited and that we have imposed, you can make it less hostile: 1) get to know the Italian grammar and using it correctly, the female becomes no less than it is in ' use of laziness or a political choice has become common to very precise 2) Since the language is a living organism that may change and changing to reflect or contribute to creating a society, we need to use and disseminate the use of terms that represent the female positive That's why I suggested to the Commission of the elected - which has accepted my invitation - to promote a series of meetings awareness and information on the use of what we conventionally call language and gender has long been a primary goal of the coordination of documentation centers for women in the Network Lilith, of which the Women's Documentation Centre is part of Ferrara since its foundation, the goal of the group of politicians and scholars who has recently formed, genre, languages \u200b\u200band language policies, and the similar "cause" on facebook Spreading the language of gender. Luciana Tufan
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