Delicious Words by Kiaer, Jieun;

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As societies across the globe are becoming increasingly interwoven, so too is the world of food. This book examines the lives of such words in today’s discourse on eating and drinking, focusing on foreign influences on culinary terms in English, and how words are born and evolve in a transcultural environment.

Hosszú leírás:

As societies across the globe are becoming increasingly interwoven at an unprecedented speed and across an impressive scope, so too is the world of food, allowing the English language to develop an ever-widening culinary vocabulary. This book examines the lives of such words in today’s discourse on eating and drinking, focusing on foreign - particularly East Asian - influences on culinary terms in English, and how words are born and evolve in a modern transcultural environment. Through the lens of culinary words, this book demonstrates that foreign-origin and hybrid words, previously considered marginal, have become a main source of new imports into our daily lexicon.

With case studies from Japan to Mongolia, Hong Kong to Korea, China to Vietnam, and beyond, this book examines how more and more words are becoming borderless and forming their own new global identities. By showcasing some lesser-known regional cuisines, alongside staple dishes that many of us already know and love, this book offers a wide range of examples in order to illustrate the metamorphosis of the manner in which we engage with food words.

This book will be of interest to general readers, as well as those who are engaged in East Asian studies, English linguistics, intercultural communication studies, translation studies, and lexicography.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Food words as translingual words

Chapter 2. Early encounters: first-generation food words

Chapter 3. Fusion, localisation, and hybridity: second-generation food words 

Chapter 4. Globalisation and social media: the global food words

Chapter 5. New words as cultural capital

Bibliography

Index