TY - BOOK ID - 86135876 TI - Elite authenticity : remaking distinction in food discourse PY - 2021 SN - 0197533477 9780197533475 9780197533444 0197533442 PB - New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Food habits KW - Elite (Social sciences) KW - Privilege (Social psychology) KW - Food writing KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Anthropological linguistics KW - Anthropo-linguistics KW - Ethnolinguistics KW - Language and ethnicity KW - Linguistic anthropology KW - Linguistics and anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Language and languages KW - Language and society KW - Society and language KW - Sociology of language KW - Sociology KW - Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) KW - Cooking KW - Cooking writing KW - Food KW - Food journalism KW - Authorship KW - Social psychology KW - Elites (Social sciences) KW - Leadership KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Social classes KW - Social groups KW - Eating KW - Food customs KW - Foodways KW - Human beings KW - Habit KW - Manners and customs KW - Diet KW - Nutrition KW - Oral habits KW - Social aspects KW - Sociological aspects KW - E-books KW - Sociolinguistics. KW - Anthropological linguistics. KW - Habitudes alimentaires KW - Élite (Sciences sociales) KW - Privilège (Psychologie sociale) KW - Cuisine KW - Sociolinguistique. KW - Ethnolinguistique. KW - sociolinguistics. KW - anthropological linguistics. KW - Elite (Social sciences). KW - Food writing. KW - Privilege (Social psychology). KW - Aspect social KW - Art d'écrire KW - Social aspects. KW - New York (State) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86135876 AB - Food plays a central role in the production of culture and is likewise a powerful resource for the representation and organization 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 Elite Authenticity, 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. Relying on a range of methodological approaches, Mapes examines restaurant reviews and articles published in the New York Times food section; a collection of Instagram posts from @nytfood; ethnographically-informed fieldwork in four renowned Brooklyn, NY, restaurants; and a recorded dinner conversation with six food-enthusiasts. Across these varied genres of data, she demonstrates how a discourse of "elite authenticity" represents a particular surfacing of rhetorical maneuvers in which distinction is orchestrated, avowed/disavowed, and circulated. Elite Authenticity takes a multimodal critical discourse analysis approach, drawing on theories from linguistics, food and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and philosophy. Its presentation and analysis of aural, visual, spatial, material, and embodied discourse will be of interest to scholars and students of communication studies, critical discourse studies, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and cultural geography. ER -