Elite authenticity : remaking distinction in food discourse / Gwynne Mapes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mapes, Gwynne, author.

Series:

Oxford studies sociolinguistic series.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies sociolinguistic series

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food habits--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York.

Food habits.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Food plays a central role in the production of culture and is likewise a powerful resource for the representation and organisation of social order. Status is asserted or contested through both the materiality of food (its substance, its raw economics, and its manufacture or preparation) and through its discursivity (its marketing, staging, and the way it is depicted and discussed). This intersection of materiality and discursivity makes food an ideal site for examining the place of language in contemporary class formations, and for engaging cutting-edge debates in sociolinguistics on language materiality. In this book, Gwynne Mapes integrates theories of mediatization, materiality, and authenticity in order to explore the discursive production of elite status and class inequality in food discourse.

Contents:

Introduction: Elite Food Discourse. Mediatizing Taste: Elite Authenticity in New York Times Food Section Articles

Between Rough and Refined: Fetishism and Condescension in @nytfood Instagram Posts

Co-constructing the Fashionable Eater: Orders of Elitist Stancetaking in "throwback Thursday" Instagram Posts

Spatializing Authenticity: The Micro-landscapes in/of Brooklyn Restaurants

Food "insiders": (Dis)avowing distinction over dinner

Conclusion: Globalizing Elite Authenticity.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-753348-5

0-19-753346-9

0-19-753347-7

OCLC:

1232010525