| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 204 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Oxford studies in sociolinguistics |
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Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Elite Food Discourse -- Mediatizing Taste: Elite Authenticity in New York Times Food Section Articles -- Between Rough and Refined: Fetishism and Condescension in @nytfood Instagram Posts -- Co-constructing the Fashionable Eater: Orders of Elitist Stancetaking in "throwback Thursday" Instagram Posts -- Spatializing Authenticity: The Micro-landscapes in/of Brooklyn Restaurants -- Food "insiders": (Dis)avowing distinction over dinner -- Conclusion: Globalizing Elite Authenticity |
| Summary |
"Food 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 thus asserted or contested through both the materiality of food (i.e. its substance, its raw economics, and its manufacture or preparation) and through its discursivity (i.e. 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 and elsewhere 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 @nytfood; ethnographically-informed fieldwork in four renowned Brooklyn, NY restaurants; and a recorded dinner conversation with six food-enthusiasts. Across these varied genres of data, she demonstrates how a discourse of "elite authenticity" represents a particular surfacing of rhetorical maneuvers in which distinction is orchestrated, avowed/disavowed, and circulated. Elite Authenticity takes a multimodal critical discourse analysis approach, drawing on theories from linguistics, food and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and philosophy. Its presentation and analysis of aural, visual, spatial, material, and embodied discourse will be of interest to scholars and students of communication studies, critical discourse studies, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and cultural geography"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed November 4, 2021) |
| Subject |
Food habits -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York
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Elite (Social sciences) -- New York (State) -- New York
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Privilege (Social psychology) -- New York (State) -- New York
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Food writing -- New York (State) -- New York
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Sociolinguistics.
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Anthropological linguistics.
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sociolinguistics.
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anthropological linguistics.
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Anthropological linguistics
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Elite (Social sciences)
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Food habits -- Social aspects
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Food writing
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Privilege (Social psychology)
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Sociolinguistics
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New York (State) -- New York
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020049212 |
| ISBN |
9780197533475 |
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0197533477 |
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9780197533468 |
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0197533469 |
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9780197533482 |
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0197533485 |
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