Autore
Pinnavaia, Laura

Titolo
Tracing Political Correctness in Bilingual English-Italian Dictionaries
Periodico
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Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 87 - Pagina finale: 106

The aim of this essay is to investigate the attitude of three bilingual English-Italian dictionaries towards political correctness. One hundred wordslabelled as offensive in relation to ethnicity, sexual preference, physical/mental disability, appearance, religion and politics were randomly selectedfrom the latest editions of five English monolingual learner’s dictionariesand were examined in different editions of Hazon, Ragazzini, and Sansoni,starting from the first editions published in the 1960s and ending with theeditions published in the first decade of the 2000s. The findings show thatall together the three dictionaries trace a realistic picture of the evolutionof political correctness from the 1960s; taken individually, however, theyare not politically correct to the same extent. From a synchronic point ofview, Ragazzini2010 is the most politically correct; from a diachronic pointof view, Hazon1990 plays an important part in diffusing political correctnessin the subsequent editions of the other dictionaries.



SICI: 1824-3967(2020)1<87:TPCIBE>2.0.ZU;2-D
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