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In this talk, I examine video-recorded mealtime interactions in a transnational, UK-based Polish-British family. Focusing on food talk, I explore how the speakers position themselves towards their foodscapes and how these stance acts reflect their shifting allegiances, social roles and identities. In particular, my qualitative discourse analysis addresses a recurrent theme in the data - co-constructed displays of culinary Otherness. The multimodal data reveal how trivial mealtime interactions can surface as complex semiotic performances, during which food and food practices of the Other become reflectively exoticized and staged in front of family members. The paper contributes to the growing body of research into the affordances of culinary talk and its role in identity projections, specifically, in the context of migration and intercultural encounters. More broadly, the analysis offers further insights into the processes of authentication and commodification of food in everyday talk.
Author(s): Wilczek-Watson M
Publication type: Digital or Visual Media
Publication status: Published
Year: 2021
Series Title: Sociolinguistics Symposium 23
Publisher: University of Hong Kong
Place Published: Online
Format: Video Talk
URL: https://www.academia.edu/video/jEL4qk
Notes: Presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 23 (e-SS23), The University of Hong Kong, 7-10 June 2021.
