Playing with Food: Language, Humor, and Disgust is the first book to explore the interplay of food, humour, and disgust in multimodal media.
Chiaro and Aarons note that, whenever food and comedy intersect, disgust is rarely far behind. Grounded in the theoretical framework of Carnival, the authors analyse the affective, cognitive, and corporeal responses to food, highlighting the central role of humor both in the way we talk about food and in our perception of the body and disgust. Through a rich array of texts, from everyday language and literature to video, advertising, music, politics, and beyond, this book advances a comprehensive examination of the wider notion of taste.
With diverse, detailed case studies and an accessible, lively style, Playing with Food is an invaluable resource for students and researchers of Linguistics, Humour Studies, Food Studies, Psychology, Media Studies, Social Anthropology, and related fields.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
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1 s/w Tabelle, 9 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 9 s/w Abbildungen
1 Tables, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-0-367-70845-0 (9780367708450)
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Professor Delia Chiaro is Professor Emerita at the University of Bologna, Italy. She writes on Humor and Translation and has authored studies on how wordplay is translated in diverse media. Her books include The Language of Jokes (Routledge, 1992) and The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2017).
Dr Debra Aarons is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She writes on Humor and Language and has co-authored, along with Marc Mierowsky, a series of articles in Comedy Studies about standup. She is the author of Jokes and the Linguistic Mind (Routledge, 2012).
Starters: Eat, shit, and die
Chapter 1 A Mouthful of Mirth: An overview of food, language, humor, and disgust
Chapter 2 The Stirrings of Disgust
Chapter 3 Digestion of Disgust in Politics (don't swallow)
Chapter 4 Food and humor get disgusting at the movies, sometimes in song
Chapter 5 Recipes for laughter: the role of humor in cookery shows
Chapter 6 "Does it taste as good if you don't post it on Instagram?" Food and humor online
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