Cynthia Gordon
List of John Benjamins publications for which Cynthia Gordon plays a role.
2024 “I’m only half Korean but I can relate to a lot of what you said”: YouTube comments as second stories in response to “lunchbox moment” narrative videos Advances in the Study of Social Action in Online Interaction, Sinkeviciute, Valeria (ed.), pp. 35–62 | Article
Analyzing 20 comments posted in response to YouTube videos wherein two Asian American young women share their “lunchbox moment” stories, or first-person past-oriented accounts of how their (white) classmates at school reacted negatively to food that they brought from home for lunch, we… read more
2023 Chapter 12. Chef knows best: How translations of an immigrant family’s recipes (re)construct a celebrity chef’s epistemic authority Pragmatics and Translation, Locher, Miriam A., Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli (eds.), pp. 281–305 | Chapter
Our analysis of translation, broadly understood, on an episode of My Family Feast – an Australian TV series hosted by British celebrity chef Sean Connolly that highlights the cultures and cuisines of immigrant Australians – shows how the family’s recipes are constructed as unfamiliar and… read more
2015 “I would suggest you tell this ^^^ to your doctor”: Online narrative problem-solving regarding face-to-face doctor-patient interaction about body weight Narrative Matters in Medical Contexts across Disciplines, Gygax, Franziska and Miriam A. Locher (eds.), pp. 117–140 | Article
I use computer-mediated discourse analysis (Herring, 2004) to investigate one online weight-loss discussion board thread that revolves around medical metadiscourse – an original poster’s depiction of a face-to-face interaction in which a doctor made an unwelcome comment about her weight. Extending… read more
2007 Repetition and identity experimentation: One child's use of repetition as a resource for "trying on" maternal identities Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse, Bamberg, Michael, Anna De Fina and Deborah Schiffrin (eds.), pp. 133–157 | Article
2003 “On trial”: Metaphor in telling the life story Narrative Inquiry 13:1, pp. 1–40 | Article