Linguistic Discrimination of LGBTQ+ People as a Deterrent to Economic Performance: The Case of the French and Italian Languages

Massimiliano Agovino is a full professor in Economic Policy at the Department of Economics, Law, Cybersecurity, and Sports Sciences of the University of Naples Parthenope, Italy and head of the PhD programme in Economics, Statistics and Sustainability. His reseach interests include the labour market, environmental sustainability, performance analysis and discrimination.

Massimiliano Cerciello is a Senior Research Fellow in Economic Policy at the Department of Economic and Legal Studies of the University of Naples Parthenope, Italy and International Factulty Fellow at the Massachussets Institute of Technology. His research interests include the empirical evaluation of public policies, labour economics, social policies and greenwashing.

Michele Bevilacqua is a Senior Research Fellow in French Language and Linguistics at the Department of Humanities of the University of Salerno (Italy). He holds a PhD in French linguistics from the University of Naples Parthenope and the Université d'Artois (Arras, France). He has been a Visiting Researcher at the Centre de recherche en linguistique française "Grammatica" of the Université d'Artois and at the Institut d'Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités of the Université Lumière Lyon 2. His research interests focus on linguistic pragmatics, lexical semantics, discourse analysis and spoken French in Maghreb countries and Canada.

馬西米利亞諾·阿戈維諾（Massimiliano Agovino）是義大利那不勒斯帕爾特諾佩大學經濟、法律、網路安全與運動科學系的經濟政策全職教授，並擔任經濟、統計與可持續發展博士課程的負責人。他的研究興趣包括勞動市場、環境可持續性、績效分析和歧視。

馬西米利亞諾·切爾奇耶洛（Massimiliano Cerciello）是義大利那不勒斯帕爾特諾佩大學經濟與法律研究系的經濟政策高級研究員，並擔任麻省理工學院的國際教職研究員。他的研究興趣包括公共政策的實證評估、勞動經濟學、社會政策和綠色洗牌。

米凱萊·貝維拉夸（Michele Bevilacqua）是義大利薩萊諾大學人文學系的法語及語言學高級研究員。他擁有那不勒斯帕爾特諾佩大學和法國阿圖瓦大學的法語語言學博士學位。他曾在阿圖瓦大學的法語語言學研究中心「Grammatica」和里昂大學的現代性表徵與思想歷史研究所擔任訪問研究員。他的研究興趣集中在語言語用學、詞彙語義學、話語分析以及馬格里布國家和加拿大的口語法語。