35.3058, Confs: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2025: Language and Food

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Subject: 35.3058, Confs: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2025: Language and Food

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Date: 01-Nov-2024
From: Cynthia Gordon [gordonc at georgetown.edu]
Subject: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2025: Language and Food


Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 2025:
Language and Food
Short Title: GURT 2025: Language and Food

Date: 28-Feb-2025 - 02-Mar-2025
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Contact: Cynthia Gordon
Contact Email: gurt at georgetown.edu
Meeting URL: https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2025/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis;
General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Meeting Description:

Food and language are omnipresent and intertwined in everyday life. We
use language to talk about food, and food terms have rich cultural
histories and associations. Menus and food packaging labels not only
provide windows on an item’s nature and quality, but also often signal
association with identities such as ethnicity, region, or class.
Mealtime has long been a privileged site for the study of language in
use, as people talk while they eat, and while they cook. Parents use
language to socialize their children into food preferences and
practices; even among adults, the taste of food is collaboratively
negotiated in interaction: think wine tasting, or dinner conversation.
Children in school cafeterias and co-workers in workplace break rooms
talk about food. People participate in online forums on topics such as
gourmet cooking, veganism, and weight loss; they use language about
food to portray themselves as certain kinds of people (gourmand,
disciplined eater, environmentalist, picky eater, athlete). People
post photos of food on Instagram, recipe videos on TikTok and
Facebook, and restaurant reviews on Yelp. Food is a necessity and a
luxury; it is intertwined with identities (e.g., cultural, gendered,
socioeconomic, political, religious), relationships (e.g.,
parent-child, friend-friend, host-guest), and values (e.g., healthful
eating, ethical eating), all of which are negotiated through language.


GURT 2025 will bring together diverse scholars whose work explores
intersections between language and food. The conference will be
inclusive of multiple approaches, including (but not limited to)
interactional sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, critical
discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, ethnography of
communication, cultural discourse analysis, narrative analysis,
variation analysis, semiotics, systemic functional linguistics,
historical linguistics, comparative linguistics, computational/corpus
linguistics, and cognitive linguistics. We invite submissions that
consider any aspect of food and language, including (but not limited
to) menus, recipes, mealtime conversations, food-related online
discussions, social media posts about food, food-related podcasts,
food advertisements, and documentary and reality TV shows about food.
Plenary speakers include Elinor Ochs and Tamar Kremer-Sadlik, Martha
Sif Karrebæk, Alla Tovares, and Camilla Vásquez.

The conference will be held on Georgetown University's main campus in
the Bunn Intercultural Center (ICC), in Washington, DC.



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