In the sixteenth century Italian was a literary language not accessible to the less educated, among them women, who would instead speak a local dialect. Little attention has been paid to women's linguistic education, but this study shows the vital role they played in developing Italian as a true mother tongue.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Prologue: On Grammar and Women
- 1: Grammatica: the key to knowledge
- 2: The Spoken Language, the Written Language
- 3: The Scope of this Book
- PART I (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries)
- 1: Women, the Vernacular, and Classical Languages
- 2: Women and Vernacular Grammar
- PART TWO (Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Centuries)
- 3: Women and Language in the Secolo delle donne
- 4: Knowledge and Language 'for the ladies'
- PART THREE (The Nineteenth Century)
- 5: Women and the Mother Tongue in the Ottocento
- 6: Women Writing on Language
- Epilogue
