{"product_id":"elite-authenticity-9780197533451","title":"Elite Authenticity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFood plays a central role in the production of culture and is likewise a powerful resource for the representation and organization of social order. Status is asserted or contested through both the materiality of food (its substance, its raw economics, and its manufacture or preparation) and through its discursivity (its marketing, staging, and the way it is depicted and discussed). This intersection of materiality and discursivity makes food an ideal site for examining the place of language in contemporary class formations, and for engaging cutting-edge debates in sociolinguistics on language materiality.In Elite Authenticity, Gwynne Mapes integrates theories of mediatization, materiality, and authenticity in order to explore the discursive production of elite status and class inequality in food discourse. Relying on a range of methodological approaches, Mapes examines restaurant reviews and articles published in the New York Times food section; a collection of Instagram posts from @ny\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMapes highlights how the dismissal of food privilege has become everyday. Readers of Elite Authenticity can feel that this is 'the right kind of' elitism: uncomfortable to dismiss but hard to ignore. * Allison Checkeye, Department of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh, Language In Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter One. Introduction: Elite Food Discourse       Elite Pancakes: A Taste of Things to Come Social Class        The Rhetorics of Food  Materiality and Language Materiality   Terroir and Authenticity  Method Overview   Chapter Two. Mediatizing Taste: Elite Authenticity in New York Times Food Section Articles    Combining \"Elite\" and \"Authenticity\"        Media Discourse and Mediatization       Data and Case Study Design         The Discourse of Elite Authenticity  Disciplining Eaters            Chapter Three. Between Rough and Refined: Fetishism and Condescension in @nytfood Instagram Posts   The Juxtaposition of \"High\" and \"Low\"        Fetishism and Food Porn        Condescension and the Linguistic Marketplace       Social Media and Social Capital        Data and Case Study Design         Between Rough and Refined             Normalizing Classlessness       Chapter Four. Co-constructing the Fashionable Eater: Orders of Elitist Stancetaking in \"throwback Thursday\" Instagram Posts  What Not to Eat          Stance and Elitist Stancetaking        Data and Case Study Design        The Orders of Elitist Stancetaking             The \"vengeful present tense in which Fashion speaks\"         Chapter Five. Spatializing Authenticity: The Micro-landscapes in\/of Brooklyn Restaurants   Place-making and Privileged Eating      Spatiality and Semiotic Landscapes         Data and Case Study Design         Spatializing Elite Authenticity     Producing and Occupying Elite Space            Chapter Six. Food \"insiders\": (Dis)avowing distinction over dinner     Interactionally-achieved Elite Eating         Dinner Conversations and Communities of Practice       Data and Case Study Design         The Simultaneous (Dis)avowal of Distinction     Everyday Elite Authenticity        Chapter Seven. Conclusion: Globalizing Elite Authenticity   The Iterations of Elite Authenticity Globalizing Elite Authenticity So How Shall We Live?  Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524586250583,"sku":"9780197533451","price":43.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197533451.jpg?v=1731857366","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/elite-authenticity-9780197533451","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}