Abstract
Food is a way of communication that many of us aren’t often aware of because most of us think that we only consume food to satisfy our temporary hunger. However, food can, in fact, be approached from a semiotic perspective because it includes many signs such as culture, gender, religion, and class within. Therefore, food should be examined from a semiotic perspective just as Roland Barthes has said. Barthes claims that how the food appears on a plate, with which methods it has been prepared, how it is served, the way it is eaten with table manners, the senses that it creates all convey some meanings because they are all a combination of different sign systems which help people to communicate (Faber and Claramonte, 2017,157). Therefore, in this research paper, how consuming a type of food can actually shape an individual’s identity and how the discourse on food from many different angles, which are culture, gender, religion, and class can be formed are discussed.
Presenters
Gulcin Ipek KalenderAssistant Professor, Department of Communication Design and Management, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Communications and Linguistic Studies
KEYWORDS
CULTURE, GENDER, RELIGION, CLASS, CONSUMER SOCIETY, FOOD, COMMUNICATION
