Il lessico delle discriminazioni nei testi normativi: metodi di analisi informatica

Over the last few years the focus on the Italian media's use of a language
defined as "discriminatory" towards Third CountryNationals living in Italy
has increased. It has become such an issue that in 2008 the Italian Journalist
Guild decided to draw up a specific code of conduct (the so-called "Carta di
Roma") regarding the language used in the news about immigration and asylum.
In addition there is a lot of recent literature about discriminatory language
in the media and several authors indicate formularies of words that in
some contexts may stigmatize certain groups of people. This paper will show
the list of these words, explaining the reason for their choice based on the
analysed literature and propose some applications to measure on one hand
the presence in the normative and administrative "dictionary" of such words
and to design on the other hand support tools for normative and administrative
document drafting which take account of these "dangers" present in
some terms.