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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797273103321

Titolo

The political language of food / / editor, Samuel Boerboom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Lexington Books, 2015

ISBN

1-4985-0557-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 275 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

AbisaidJoe

AdamsJennifer

BoehmMelissa

Disciplina

338.47664

Soggetti

Food industry and trade--Moral and ethical aspects

Food industry and trade--Terminology--Political aspects

Food--Moral and ethical aspects

Food--Terminology--Political aspects

Food - Terminology - Political aspects

Food - Moral and ethical aspects

Food industry and trade - Political aspects - Terminology

Food industry and trade - Moral and ethical aspects

Health & Biological Sciences

Diet & Clinical Nutrition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Chapter Eleven: Corporate Colonization in the Market""""Chapter Twelve: Mistaken Consensus and the Body-as-Machine Analogy""; ""Index""; ""About the Contributors""

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--Provided by publisher