Publications
Publication details [#58422]
Holmes, Janet, Brian King and Meredith Marra. 2014. Trivial, mundane or revealing? Food as a lens on ethnic norms in workplace talk. Language & Communication 34 : 46–55. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
Within the limitations of the meeting genre, this study contrasts food talk as worldly in a Māori, yet banal in a New Zealand Pākehā (majority group) workplace context. Food talk thus offers a surprising way of obtaining information on typical cultural norms.