Food Across Cultures

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Italian Food Perception as a Marker of the Spread of Italian Identity in Germany

   • Amelia Bandini, Marcella Corduas

   Pages 1-21

3. Food and Translation in Montalbano

   • Margherita Dore

   Pages 23-42

4. Callaloo or Pelau? Food, Identity and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago

   • Eleonora Esposito

   Pages 43-70

5. Diasporic Identities in Social Practices: Language and Food in the Loughborough Italian Community

   • Siria Guzzo, Anna Gallo

   Pages 71-97

6. Stuff the Turkey! An Investigation of Food, Language and Performative Identity Construction in Eat Pray Love

   • Bronwen Hughes

   Pages 99-125

7. Pancakes Stuffed with Sweet Bean Paste: Food-Related Lexical Borrowings as Indicators of the Intensity of Language Contact in the Pacific

   • Kazuko Matsumoto, David Britain

   Pages 127-167

8. Pizza Chiena Between Two Worlds

   • Suzanne Romaine

   Pages 169-203

9. Back Matter

   Pages 205-211

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This edited volume brings together original sociolinguistic and cultural contributions on food as an instrument to explore diasporic identities. Focusing on food practices in cross-cultural contact, the authors reveal how they can be used as a powerful vehicle for positive intercultural exchange either though conservation and the maintenance of cultural continuity, or through hybridization and the means through which migrant communities find compromise, or even consent, within the host community. Each chapter presents a fascinating range of data and new perspectives on cultures and languages in contact: from English (and some of its varieties) to Italian, German, Spanish, and to Japanese and Palauan, as well as an exemplary range of types of contact, in colonial, multicultural, and diasporic situations. The authors use a range of integrated approaches to examine how socio-linguistic food practices can, and do, contribute to identity construction in diverse transnational and diasporic contexts. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of translation, semiotics, cultural studies and sociolinguistics. 

• language and food
• communities of practice
• diasporic communities
• language contact
• performative identity construction
• ethnic identity
• post-nationalism
• transnationalism
• Audiovisual translation
• globalisation
• Italian-Americans
• semiotic analysis
• Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
• cross-cultural contact

• Department of Literary, Linguistics and Comparative Studies, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Naples, Italy

  Giuseppe Balirano

• Department of Humanities, University of Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

  Siria Guzzo

Giuseppe Balirano is Professor of English Linguistics and Translation in the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Italy.


Siria Guzzo is Tenured Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the University of Salerno, Italy.

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