Publications

Publication details [#55158]

Aronsson, Karin and Lucas Gottzén. 2011. Generational positions at a family dinner: Food morality and social order. Language in Society 40 (4) : 405–426.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | dinner conversation | family conversation | moral argumentation | socialization

Language as a subject

Swedish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study on generation and food morality, as expressed during dinner conversations in Swedish middle-class families, demonstrates that generational positions are not fixed, yet adopted as parts of language socialization and interactional events.