Description
Book SynopsisFood, Language, and Society: Communication in Japanese Foodways examines the language of food in Japanese through the lens of cognitive science and cultural studies to explore intriguing ways in which language, food, and culture interact in the fabric of Japanese society. The questions of how, where, and by whom food and food experiences are described provide abundant opportunities for investigating relationships between language and culture from multi-disciplinary perspectives. Linguistic analysis of the language of food enables us to understand cognitive information that motivates and influences people's rhetorical choices on foodways. Detailed discussions reveal that loanwords, mimetics, cooking terms, and metaphors serve as lynchpins to enrich the expressive power of the language of food. Food discourse situated in broader social and cultural contexts also reflect social norms and cultural practices deeply embedded within and beyond our gustatory and culinary life. Food narrativ
Table of Contents
Chapter 1Introduction to Food, Language, and Society
Part I: Language of Food from within
Chapter 2Loanwords
Chapter 3Mimetics
Chapter 4The Vocabulary of Food Preparation – Concept and Lexical Process
Chapter 5Metaphors
Part II: Language of Food in Society
Chapter 6Recipes and Cookbooks
Chapter 7Construction of Gendered Images in Foodways
