Delicious Words - East Asian Food Words in English

As societies across the globe are becoming increasingly interwoven, so too is the world of food. This book examines the lives of such words in today's discourse on eating and drinking, focusing on foreign influences on culinary terms in English, and how words are born and evolve in a transcultural environment.

List of contents

Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Food words as translingual words
Chapter 2. Early encounters: first-generation food words
Chapter 3. Fusion, localisation, and hybridity: second-generation food words
Chapter 4. Globalisation and social media: the global food words
Chapter 5. New words as cultural capital
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Jieun Kiaer is an Associate Professor of Korean Language and Linguistics at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include the formation of translingual/transcultural words and dynamic lexicons. She is particularly interested in the role of social media in the global lexicon. Kiaer is the series editor for Routledge Studies in East Asian Translation and has most recently published Translingual Words (Routledge, 2019).

Summary

As societies across the globe are becoming increasingly interwoven, so too is the world of food. This book examines the lives of such words in today’s discourse on eating and drinking, focusing on foreign influences on culinary terms in English, and how words are born and evolve in a transcultural environment.

Product details

• Authors: Jieun Kiaer, Kiaer Jieun
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2020
• EAN: 9780367337704
• ISBN: 978-0-367-33770-4
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Routledge Studies in East Asian Translation
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; COOKING / General, English, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, MUSIC / Ethnic, Sociolinguistics, Translation & interpretation, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, East Asia, Far East, Regional Geography, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Translation and interpretation