Publications

Publication details [#56777]

Sandel, Tod L. and Dini M. Homsey. 2012. The Code of Food and Tradition: Exploring a Lebanese (American) Speech Code in Practice in Flatland. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 41 (1) : 59–80.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code | gender | identity negotiation | language and culture | speech community

Language as a subject

Lebanese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Tapping into Speech Codes Theory and Bakhtinian viewpoints, this study characterizes a distinct speech code used at a Lebanese food festival in American Flatland as gendered, generationally defined, and tradition-based.