Kathleen C Riley, Amy L Paugh

Food and Language

Discourses and Foodways Across Cultures

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an overview of how we talk about food, how we interact in its presence, how we use food to communicate, and how social interaction feeds us. It takes linguistic and anthropological perspectives while also bringing in research from other related disciplines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781138907010
• ISBN-10: 1138907014
• Artikelnr.: 53685670

Autorenporträt

Kathleen C. Riley teaches linguistic anthropology at Rutgers University, USA. She has conducted fieldwork on foodways and language socialization in French Polynesia, France, Québec, and New York City. She has co-edited (with Christine Jourdan) a special issue of Anthropologie et Sociétés on food glocalization and (with Jillian Cavanaugh) a special issue of the Semiotic Review on food and language. Amy L. Paugh is a Professor of Anthropology at James Madison University, USA. Her research investigates language and food, language socialization, and children's cultures in Dominica, Caribbean, and the United States. She is the author of Playing with Languages: Children and Change in a Caribbean Village.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Copyright Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction: Talking Food Across Cultures
Chapter 2 The Communicating Eater
Chapter 3 Procuring and Processing Food-and-Language Data
Chapter 4 Language Through Food
Chapter 5 Language About Food
Chapter 6 Language Around Food
Chapter 7 Language As Food
Chapter 8 Applying the Food-and-Language Model
Glossary
Appendix: Ethnography of SPEAKING-and-FEEDING
Index