Healthy beverages?
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Martha Sif Karrebæk
Abstract
This paper investigates the socialization into healthy food practices in a Danish multi-ethnic kindergarten classroom within the frameworks of Linguistic Ethnography (Creese, 2008; Rampton, Maybin & Tusting, 2007) and Language Socialization (Ochs, 1988; Schieffelin, 1990). I present micro-analyses of three situations where the health value of milk, water, and juice is topicalized. Health is a moral concept which is culturally embedded but linguistically constructed and negotiated. I discuss how learning outcomes in health educational activities depend on individuals’ understandings prior to interactions and on the process of co-ordinating understandings. Also, in children’s conversations nutritional value becomes an interactional resource. The paper contributes to prior research with a micro-analytic perspective on the role of health education in wider processes of social exclusion and intercultural (mis)understandings.
Abstract
This paper investigates the socialization into healthy food practices in a Danish multi-ethnic kindergarten classroom within the frameworks of Linguistic Ethnography (Creese, 2008; Rampton, Maybin & Tusting, 2007) and Language Socialization (Ochs, 1988; Schieffelin, 1990). I present micro-analyses of three situations where the health value of milk, water, and juice is topicalized. Health is a moral concept which is culturally embedded but linguistically constructed and negotiated. I discuss how learning outcomes in health educational activities depend on individuals’ understandings prior to interactions and on the process of co-ordinating understandings. Also, in children’s conversations nutritional value becomes an interactional resource. The paper contributes to prior research with a micro-analytic perspective on the role of health education in wider processes of social exclusion and intercultural (mis)understandings.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
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Part 1: Introduction
- Introduction to Language and Food 3
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Part 2: Process and structural organization
- Negotiating a passage to the meal in four cultures 31
- The structural organization of ordering and serving sushi 53
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Part 3: Talking about the food while eating
- It's delicious! 79
- Food and identity in Eegimaa and Wolof 103
- Modality and evidentiality in Japanese and American English taster lunches 131
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Part 4: Experiences and stories related to food
- Food experiences and categorization in Japanese talk-in-interaction 159
- Repetition of words and phrases from the punch lines of Japanese stories about food and restaurants 185
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Part 5: Talk about food with and among children
- Family mealtimes, yuckiness and the socialization of disgust responses by preschool children 211
- Early experiences with food 233
- “I needa cut up my soup” 257
- Healthy beverages? 279
- Author index 301
- Subject index 305
- Food names and descriptor index 313
- Commensality index 317
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
-
Part 1: Introduction
- Introduction to Language and Food 3
-
Part 2: Process and structural organization
- Negotiating a passage to the meal in four cultures 31
- The structural organization of ordering and serving sushi 53
-
Part 3: Talking about the food while eating
- It's delicious! 79
- Food and identity in Eegimaa and Wolof 103
- Modality and evidentiality in Japanese and American English taster lunches 131
-
Part 4: Experiences and stories related to food
- Food experiences and categorization in Japanese talk-in-interaction 159
- Repetition of words and phrases from the punch lines of Japanese stories about food and restaurants 185
-
Part 5: Talk about food with and among children
- Family mealtimes, yuckiness and the socialization of disgust responses by preschool children 211
- Early experiences with food 233
- “I needa cut up my soup” 257
- Healthy beverages? 279
- Author index 301
- Subject index 305
- Food names and descriptor index 313
- Commensality index 317
