Lui stupra, lei è stupida. Un modello di rappresentazione di “vittime imperfette” nelle narrazioni massmediali della violenza sessuale.

Abstract

Moving from the etymological examination and lexicographic history of rape, the aim of this paper is to read and understand the socio-cultural stigma of sexual abuse victims in the collective imagination. The purpose of the research is to provide an illustrative review of the discursive-textual realizations of transmedia narratives of rape by means of coordinates and interpretive categories inherent to critical discourse analysis, applied to the study of media of different generations. The media, referred to by UNESCO as "our windows to the world," reflect, reproduce and reinforce cultural parameters and cognitive frames and interpretive scripts that serve as devices of knowledge and discernment of reality for individuals, both as individuals and as exponents of the collective.