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Sweet talking: Food, language, and democracy
Abstract
At a time of diminishing resources, the sum of apparently minor personal decisions about food can have immense impact. These individual choices are heavily influenced by language, as those with vested interests seek to persuade individuals to act in certain ways. This makes the language of food politics a fitting area for an expanding applied linguistics oriented towards real-world language-related problems of global and social importance. The paper draws upon five consecutive research projects to show how applied linguistics research may contribute to public policy and debate, and also how, by entering such new arenas, it can develop its own methods and understanding of contemporary language use.
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“the monolingual approach rests on a number of assumptions that G. Cook (2010) has characterized as empirically untested including views that (1) using the additional language exclusively is more natural and similar to own language acquisition, (2) that students need large amounts of input (Krashen, 1981) in order to acquire an additional language”
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“In the past 100 years or so the central doctrine of the late 19th century Reform Movement in additional language education with its advocacy for monolingual teaching, i.e. teaching the focal language through that language exclusively, has held sway in the foreign/second language education thinking (see Cook, 2010: Chapter 1; Cummins, 2007; Hall and Cook, 2012).”
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- Authors
- Cook, G.
- Affiliations
- The Open University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Cook, Guy
- ORCID
- Cook, Guy
- Venue
- Language Teaching
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2009-09-10
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 168-181
- ISSN
- 0261-4448 (ISSN-L)
- 1475-3049
- OpenAlex
- W2170748116
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Language Teaching (publishedVersion)
- Open Research Online - ORO (The Open University) (acceptedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Cultural and political discourse analysis
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Multilingual Education and Policy
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
- Keywords
- food politics, language and democracy, persuasion, food choice, public policy, applied linguistics, language use, food industry marketing
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