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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.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dinner conversation | ethnicity | language and culture | meeting | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

English, New Zealand | Maori

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

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.