Overview
- Examines the role of food in shaping transnational identities in different language contact situations
- Analyses how 'ethnic' food practices serve to craft both group and individual identities as well as multiple social positioning
- Interrogates the notion of food as performance and culture, traversing linguistic, cultural and post-national borders
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Siria Guzzo is Tenured Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the University of Salerno, Italy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food Across Cultures
Book Subtitle: Linguistic Insights in Transcultural Tastes
Editors: Giuseppe Balirano, Siria Guzzo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11153-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-11152-6Published: 01 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-11153-3Published: 19 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 211
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Diaspora, Global/International Culture, Translation, Semiotics, Intercultural Communication