Table of contents
Part 1: Introduction
Introduction to Language and Food: The verbal and nonverbal experience
Part 2: Process and structural organization
Negotiating a passage to the meal in four cultures
The structural organization of ordering and serving sushi
Part 3: Talking about the food while eating
It's delicious! How Japanese speakers describe food at a social event
Food and identity in Eegimaa and Wolof: We eat what we are
Modality and evidentiality in Japanese and American English taster lunches: Identifying and assessing an unfamiliar drink
Part 4: Experiences and stories related to food
Food experiences and categorization in Japanese talk-in-interaction
Repetition of words and phrases from the punch lines of Japanese stories about food and restaurants: A group bonding exercise
Part 5: Talk about food with and among children
Family mealtimes, yuckiness and the socialization of disgust responses by preschool children
Early experiences with food: Socializing affect and relationships in Japanese
“I needa cut up my soup”: Food talk, pretend play, and gender in an American preschool
Healthy beverages? The interactional use of milk, juice and water in an ethnically diverse kindergarten class in Denmark
Author index
Subject index
Food names and descriptor index
Commensality index
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