Broad or inclusive language has reached the attention of media and public debate during the last decades. In Italy, the publication by Alma Sabatini “Raccomandazioni per un uso non sessista della lingua italiana” was an important starting point. The paper focuses on the linguistic innovation as a moment of the society/language interaction, within the theoretical framework of the law and language parallel. The opposition between descriptivism and prescriptivism in linguistics will be challenged, by interpreting the linguistic norm and the legal norm as driver for social transformations.