This edited volume brings together original sociolinguistic and cultural contributions on food as an instrument to explore diasporic identities. Focusing on food practices in cross-cultural contact, the authors reveal how they can be used as a powerful vehicle for positive intercultural exchange either though conservation and the maintenance of cultural continuity, or through hybridization and the means through which migrant communities find compromise, or even consent, within the host community. Each chapter presents a fascinating range of data and new perspectives on cultures and languages in contact: from English (and some of its varieties) to Italian, German, Spanish, and to Japanese and Palauan, as well as an exemplary range of types of contact, in colonial, multicultural, and diasporic situations. The authors use a range of integrated approaches to examine how socio-linguistic food practices can, and do, contribute to identity construction in diverse transnational and diasporic contexts. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of translation, semiotics, cultural studies and sociolinguistics.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2019

ISBN

9783030111533

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Sociolinguistics

Index

Languages & Linguistics

Cover
Front Matter
1. Italian Food Perception as a Marker of the Spread of Italian Identity in Germany
2. Food and Translation in Montalbano
3. Callaloo or Pelau? Food, Identity and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago
4. Diasporic Identities in Social Practices: Language and Food in the Loughborough Italian Community
5. Stuff the Turkey! An Investigation of Food, Language and Performative Identity Construction in Eat Pray Love
6. Pancakes Stuffed with Sweet Bean Paste: Food-Related Lexical Borrowings as Indicators of the Intensity of Language Contact in the Pacific
7. Pizza Chiena Between Two Worlds
Back Matter