The Political Language of Food
Contributions by Joe Abisaid, Jennifer Adams, Melissa Boehm, Samuel Boerboom, Kathy Brady, Cristin A. Compton, Leda Cooks, Ellen Gorsevski, Casey Ryan Kelly, Justin Killian, Megan A. Koch, Amy Pason, Jessica Prody Edited by Samuel Boerboom
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Publication date:
06 May 2015Length of book:
282 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9781498505567
The Political Language of Food addresses why the language used in the production, marketing, selling, and consumption of food is inherently political. Food language is rarely neutral and is often strategically vague, which tends to serve the interests of powerful entities.Boerboom and his contributors critique the language of food-based messages and examine how such language—including idioms, tropes, euphemisms, invented terms, etc.—serves to both mislead and obscure relationships between food and the resulting community, health, labor, and environmental impacts. Employing diverse methodologies, the contributors examine on a micro-level the textual and rhetorical elements of food-based language itself. The Political Language of Food is both timely and important and will appeal to scholars of media studies, political communication, and rhetoric.
This book is extremely clear and will prove helpful for people interested in any subject relating to the (political) language involving food. It would work well for a classroom setting because it covers so many different perspectives. It is great for people to know about the discrepancies involving the food industry, with examples and individual stories. I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for new perspectives on this concept.