Food and Language: Discourses and Foodways across Cultures (Routledge Foundations in Linguistic Anthropology)

Food And Language: Discourses And Foodways Across Cultures Presents An Overview Of How Discourses And Foodways Are Intertwined Across Cultures And Social Settings: How Do We Talk About Food, How Do We Interact In Its Presence, How Do We Use Food To Communicate, And How Does Social Interaction Feed Us? The Book Takes Linguistic And Anthropological Perspectives While Also Bringing In Research From Other Related Disciplines. It Assumes No Previous Linguistics Knowledge But Provides Students With The Understanding And Skills Needed To Pursue Further Research On The Subject. With A Full Glossary At The End Of The Book, And Additional Tools (such As Recommended Readings And Video Links) Hosted On An Eresources Page, This Book Serves As An Ideal Introduction For Students Taking Courses On Food In Anthropology Departments, Linguistics Departments, And Across The Humanities And Social Sciences-- Introduction: Talking Food Across Cultures -- The Communicating Eater -- Procuring And Processing Food-and-language Data -- Language Through Food -- Language About Food -- Language Around Food -- Language As Food -- Applying The Food-and-language Model. Kathleen C. Riley And Amy L. Paugh. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "Food and Language : Discourses and Foodways across Cultures explores in innovative ways how food and language are intertwined across cultures and social settings. How do we talk about food? How do we interact in its presence? How do we use food to communicate? And how does social interaction feed us? The book assumes no previous linguistic or anthropological knowledge but provides readers with the understanding to pursue further research on the subject. With a full glossary at the end of the book and additional tools hosted on an eResources page (such as recommended web and video links and some suggested research exercises), this book serves as an ideal introduction for courses on food, language, and food-and-language in anthropology departments, linguistics departments, and across the humanities and social sciences. It will also appeal to any reader interested in the semiotic interplay between food and language."--Page 4 de la couverture "Food and Language: Discourses and Foodways across Cultures presents an overview of how discourses and foodways are intertwined across cultures and social settings: how do we talk about food, how do we interact in its presence, how do we use food to communicate, and how does social interaction feed us? The book takes linguistic and anthropological perspectives while also bringing in research from other related disciplines. It assumes no previous linguistics knowledge but provides students with the understanding and skills needed to pursue further research on the subject. With a full glossary at the end of the book, and additional tools (such as recommended readings and video links) hosted on an eResources page, this book serves as an ideal introduction for students taking courses on food in Anthropology departments, Linguistics departments, and across the humanities and social sciences"-- Provided by publisher Cover Title Copyright Contents List of Illustrations Preface Copyright Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Talking Food Across Cultures 2 The Communicating Eater 3 Procuring and Processing Food-and-Language Data 4 Language Through Food 5 Language About Food 6 Language Around Food 7 Language As Food 8 Applying the Food-and-Language Model Glossary Appendix: Ethnography of SPEAKING-and-FEEDING Index 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.