Language and Food: Verbal and Nonverbal Experiences
Polly E. Szatrowski (ed.)
This book investigates the intricate interplay between language and food in natural conversations among people eating and talking about food in English, Japanese, Wolof, Eegimaa, Danish, German, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. It is a socio-cultural/ linguistic study of how adults/ children organize their language and bodies to (1) accomplish rituals and performances of commensality (eating together) and food-related actions, (2) taste, describe, identify and assess food, and influence others’ preferences, (3) create and reinforce individual and group identities through past experiences and stories about food, and (4) socialize one another to food practices, affect, taste, gender and health norms. Using approaches from linguistics, conversation analysis, ethnography, discursive psychology, and linguistic anthropology, this book elucidates the dynamic verbal and nonverbal co-construction of food practices, assessments, categories, and identities in conversations over and about food, and contributes to research on contextualized social, cultural, and cognitive activity, language and food, and cross-cultural understanding.
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Jahr:
2014
Verlag:
John Benjamins
Sprache:
english
Seiten:
324
ISBN 10:
9027256438
ISBN 13:
9789027256430
Serien:
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 238
Datei:
PDF, 5.92 MB
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english, 2014