{"product_id":"elite-authenticity-remaking-distinction-in-food-discourse-paperback","title":"Elite Authenticity: Remaking Distinction in Food Discourse - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGwynne Mapes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFood plays a central role in the production of culture and is likewise a powerful resource for the representation and organization of social order. Status is asserted or contested through both the materiality of food (its substance, its raw economics, and its manufacture or preparation) and through its discursivity (its marketing, staging, and the way it is depicted and discussed). This intersection of materiality and discursivity makes food an ideal site for examining the place of language in contemporary class formations, and for engaging cutting-edge debates in sociolinguistics on language materiality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eElite Authenticity\u003c\/em\u003e, Gwynne Mapes integrates theories of mediatization, materiality, and authenticity in order to explore the discursive production of elite status and class inequality in food discourse. Relying on a range of methodological approaches, Mapes examines restaurant reviews and articles published in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e food section; a collection of Instagram posts from @nytfood; ethnographically-informed fieldwork in four renowned Brooklyn, NY, restaurants; and a recorded dinner conversation with six food-enthusiasts. Across these varied genres of data, she demonstrates how a discourse of \"elite authenticity\" represents a particular surfacing of rhetorical maneuvers in which distinction is orchestrated, avowed\/disavowed, and circulated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eElite Authenticity\u003c\/em\u003e takes a multimodal critical discourse analysis approach, drawing on theories from linguistics, food and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, and philosophy. Its presentation and analysis of aural, visual, spatial, material, and embodied discourse will be of interest to scholars and students of communication studies, critical discourse studies, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and cultural geography.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGwynne Mapes\u003c\/strong\u003e is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She has recent papers published in \u003cem\u003eJournal of Sociolinguistics, Discourse, Context \u0026amp; Media\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLanguage and Communication\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLanguage in Society\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.9 x 6.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461282807986,"sku":"9780197533451","price":80.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/104a068616925b711b702dbd0b4beea8.webp?v=1778945106","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/elite-authenticity-remaking-distinction-in-food-discourse-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}