33.2452, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/Belgium

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Subject: 33.2452, Calls: Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics/Belgium

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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 05:40:31
From: Sofia Rüdiger [sofia.ruediger at uni-bayreuth.de]
Subject: Dude food and chick beer: Linguistic and semiotic perspectives on nutrition as a gendered cultural practice

 
Full Title: Dude food and chick beer: Linguistic and semiotic perspectives on nutrition as a gendered cultural practice 

Date: 09-Jul-2023 - 14-Jul-2023
Location: Brussels, Belgium 
Contact Person: Sofia Rüdiger
Meeting Email: sofia.ruediger at uni-bayreuth.de

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2022 

Meeting Description:

Food and drink, and consumption more generally, is deeply linked to cultural
practice, and to the negotiation of social status and other aspects of social
identities. This connection is entrenched in classical sociological theory
(Veblen; Bourdieu), and has been increasingly explored in linguistics in
recent years. Thus linguistic approaches to food practices (Rüdiger and
Mühleisen 2020; Tovares and Gordon 2020) have highlighted how social status
and categories of belonging are talked into being around practices of food and
drink consumption (e.g. Silverstein 2003 on wine talk and status anxiety;
Cotter and Valentinsson 2018 on bivalent class indexing in specialty coffee
discourse; Mapes 2020 on palatable eliteness; Schneider 2020 on third wave
coffee and cosmopolitan discourse).
However, the gendered dimension of food and drink talk has so far received
less attention. In cultural and social theory, approaches such as Contois’
(2018, 2020, 2021) work on food and masculinity have pointed to these
connections: ideologies of gender are cast upon practices of eating and
drinking, from gendered product ranges and eating places to gendered
assumptions and regimes of un/healthy eating, dieting and cooking (see also
Bouvier & Chen 2021). 
In a similar vein, foodie culture and practices have been shown to perpetuate
the performance of stereotypical, classed femininities and masculinities,
while also allowing an escape from them, particularly for women (Cairns,
Johnston and Baumann 2010). Dichotomous gendered eating practices have also
been observed in the context of fitness magazines (Fuller, Briggs and
Dillon-Sumner 2012). In addition, cookbooks authored by female chefs emphasize
aspects of hegemonic femininity such as care for self and others, while
concurrently offering competing discourses of self-fulfillment and
independence (Matwick 2017). 
In this panel, we aim to gather further perspectives on the nexus between
gender and food-and-drinks talk. We are particularly interested in discursive,
multimodal, material and embodied ways of doing gendered food talk: How are
products made, packaged, marketed and sold? How are eating and drinking spaces
discursively styled towards gender binaries? How are gendered
characterological figures inscribed into cooking and eating practices? What
linguistic and semiotic repertoires are used to construct male and female
bodies in the context of eating and drinking? How are gendered food identities
of the self discursively constructed and how do these emerge in interactions?
These and related questions are the scope of our panel.

Panel Organizers
Theresa Heyd (University of Greifswald)
Sofia Rüdiger (University of Bayreuth)
Janina Wildfeuer (University of Groningen)
Kristina Bedijs (Studienzentrum der EKD für Genderfragen)


Call for Papers:

We invite all contributions targeting linguistic theory and practice of
gendered food and drinks talk. In particular, we welcome contributions
addressing pragmatic and discursive, sociolinguistic and multimodal aspects of
gender and consumption.

Abstracts (min. 250 and max. 500 words) should be submitted via the IPrA
conference website (https://ipra2023.exordo.com/) until 1 November 2022. The
submission system will allow you to make a panel selection. More information
on the submission process can be found at
https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP.




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