Gli alpha e i beta. La lingua della uomosfera nelle comunità online italiane

This paper investigates communication practices used in online environments attributable to the so-called manosphere, with the aim of providing a first description of the variety of language used by the writers. To this end, a corpus consisting of data from blog and website from the manopshere was collected. Quantitative and qualitative analysis shows the construction of specific gender ideologies through different linguistic strategies; furthermore, the analysis shows that while the Italian manosphere shares several features with other Internet language varieties, it also includes some unique linguistic characteristics.