[Linganth] CfP -- panel at CASCA on food and language

[Kate Riley]

Hi All,

Jillian and I are co-convening a panel on food and language (see the panel
abstract pasted in below) for CASCA, which will be meeting in early May in
Ottawa (see conference website
http://www.cas-sca.ca/conference/upcoming-conference/information).  The
deadline for submitting paper proposals is Dec. 19, and to submit a paper
proposal for our panel. please go here:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/suite/panels.php5?PanelID=5446

We're looking forward to seeing new work on this burgeoning topic!

Thanks!
Kate and Jillian


Out of the Kitchen and into the Slaughterhouse:

Food and Language beyond the Cookbook and the Dinner Table



                Organized by

Kathleen C. Riley (Rutgers University) and Jillian R. Cavanaugh (Brooklyn
College and CUNY)



In brief: This panel combines a range of traditional approaches (from
ethnosemantic to discourse analysis) to create a common semiotic toolkit
for studying how humans communicate about, around, and through the full
spectrum of their foodways (from production to disposal).



Abstract:

Studies that bring food and language together have occurred across
anthropology for decades (think, for instance, of Malinowski’s yam spells,
Frake’s drink orders, and Douglass’s grammar of the meal). More recently,
the joint focus on food and language in anthropological and communication
studies has continued in a range of forms: etymological analysis of food
words, conversational analysis of dinnertime discourse, and political
analysis of food rhetoric (from films to farm bills). However, the attempt
to bring these diverse threads together under one theoretical roof, working
to explore the full spectrum of foodways (from production and processing to
consumption and disposal) and the full multimodal spectrum of discourse
(from idioms to kitchen gossip, from lip smacks to multimedia ads) is as
yet only begun.  This panel brings together papers by a group of
researchers who are pushing the boundaries of this emerging
interdisciplinary merger, looking for instance at feasting in France,
sausage-making in Italy, women’s entrepreneurial food in the Marquesas, and
talk about and around local food in Dominica.  Together we hope to provide
a tantalizing vision of how food and language can be researched together
through a semiotic lens bent on how people index who they are and how they
feel about themselves and others, while communicating about, around, and
through food in a multitude of contexts.
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