We're ending the full talks with Angeliki Tzanne on self-praise in Greek food blogs. Quite some self-praise in the comments is by the food bloggers themselves; food blog visitors often first praise the blogger, then themselves
#DigitalPalates #CulinaryLinguistics #LanguageAndFood
here's the book of abstracts for #DigitalPalates in case anyone wants to look a bit more closely at some of the talks mentioned here: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/we06/digi...
#CulinaryLinguistics #LanguageAndFood
We stay in the Japanese context with Polly Szatrowski and sustainability discourses in Japanese Instagram posts 🌱
#DigitalPalates #CulinaryLinguistics #LanguageAndFood
We continue the morning session with a talk on....ice cream! 🍦🍨 Kelsi Matwick is taking us to Okinawa and the online presence of Blue Seal Ice Cream
#CulinaryLinguistics
Ppt slide "the better choice"
Day 3 of #DigitalPalates starts with a fun-boosted, boredom-free keynote by Nele Gerhardt on exgredients and addgredients in food blogs
#LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics
Digital P(a)lates: pixel-fruits getting cut up
Just realized it's only three more weeks until the first day of #DigitalPalates 😱 & 🤩
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/we06/digitalpalates
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Happening in ~three hours today 📽️👩🍳
#FoodTok goes #BaeFoLa!
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DM me for Zoom link if you want to join spontaneously!
Today ⬇️ Last chance to get in your language and food fix of the year #BaeFoLa #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics
BaeFoLa Flyer Carolin Schneider Ward: Bake, Tic, Repeat: Multimodal Self-Reactions in the Digital Kitchen
It's the final #BæFoLa talk of 2025 and of course it's about baking 🥄👩🍳 Carolin Schneider Ward on "Multimodal Self-Reactions in the Digital Kitchen", Friday, December 19, 12:30-13:30 CET, Zoom. Let me know if you want to join! #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics
BaeFoLa-Flyer with a donut text: In recent years, the rise of vegetarianism and veganism has not only transformed consumer habits but also reshaped the language of food. As plant-based products enter mainstream markets, they encounter both legal challenges around labeling and the need for brands to signal innovation and authenticity. This talk explores how linguistic creativity influences product naming by drawing on a manually compiled corpus with product names from international plant-based brands. Instances from the corpus illustrate how spelling innovations, playful blends and positively connotated words, amongst others, create new ways of conveying the product’s ‘plant-based’ nature while appealing to consumer imagination and adapting to both regulatory frameworks and marketing needs. Beyond individual cases, these patterns reveal how branding contributes to a broader shift in English vocabulary, giving rise to persuasive and inventive naming. In conclusion, linguistic devices act as innovative tools for conveying specific product attributes, while fostering lexical creativity and novelty in Modern English and enhancing brand positioning, appeal, and memorability.
November is nearly over so it's time for our next #BæFoLa session! 🍩 This Friday, Nov 28 (12:30-13:30 CET), Isabel Espinosa-Zaragoza will talk on Zoom about "VeggieWords: Lexical Innovation in Vegan and Vegetarian Product Naming". All welcome! #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics #VeggieWords 🥕🥬🥦
PPT title slide "Discourses of Overconsumption on YouTube: Foodfluencers, Digital Gluttony, and the Spectacle of Eating"
A bit of overconsumption for the evening 🍔 Happy to zoom into a University of Florida classroom to give a talk about our Carnivalesque Consumption project #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics
flyer for Jonatan Leer's talk
#BæFoLa is back 🍩🍩🍩 We're about to hit off Season 9 of the Bayreuth-Berlin Food and Language Talks this Friday (Oct 31), 12:30-13:30 CET, with Jonatan Leer's presentation on "Food Porn: Food Aesthetics in a Digital Age". 👅🥞📱
Join us via Zoom if you're interested, DM for link.
#CulinaryLinguistics
As apparently hosting websites for more than a couple of days is too much to ask, here's a new link to the #BæFoLa program:
sites.google.com/view/sofia-r...
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BaeFoLa Poster with a donut for each talk October 31, 12:30-13:30 CET: Jonatan Leer (Örebro University) Food Porn: Food Aesthetics in a Digital Age November 28, 12:30-13:30 CET: Isabel Espinosa-Zaragoza (University of Alicante) VeggieWords: Lexical Innovation in Vegan and Vegetarian Product Naming December 19, 12:30-13:30 CET: Carolin Schneider Ward (University of Duisburg-Essen) Bake, Tic, Repeat: Multimodal Self-Reactions in the Digital Kitchen January 30, 12:30-13:30 CET: Stefan Hauser (University of Teacher Education Zug) Dynamisation Processes in Cooking Videos on TikTok: A Media Linguistic Approach
#BæFoLa is back!
We're ready for Season 9 featuring delicious talks on:
🍆 food porn (Jonatan Leer)
🥕 veggie words (Isabel Espinosa-Zaragoza)
🧁 baking videos (Carolin Schneider-Ward)
🍳 cooking videos (Stefan Hauser)
More info at tinyurl.com/baefola
#LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics
This looks great and surely of interest to #LanguageAndFood and #CulinaryLinguistics researchers: "From Homeland to Hostland: Ethnographic Explorations of Food, Migration and Hospitality"
I'm speaking at Food for All slide, pictures of various food items
Day 2 of #FoodAndCommunication #FoodForAllConference Time for our talk on excessive cooking shows in the cooking show ecology! #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics
special issue cover of Anglistik, dominantly colored in red, the picture shows a blackboard menu
Right in time for #FoodAndCommunication4: our special issue "Focus on Language and Food" is out now with Anglistik 🤩 9 papers (and an introduction) that will make your foodie/linguistics heart happy. All of it open access: angl.winter-verlag.de/issue/ANGL/2... #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics 🍩
Second call for papers for Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices at FU Berlin. Abstracts due October 1 #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics
Just got out of a big planning meeting for the #DigitalPalates conference (March 26-28, 2026 @ FU Berlin). With half a year to go to the conference, it's getting real 🤩 & 😱
Don't forget the abstract submission deadline on October 1!
tinyurl.com/digitalpalates
#CulinaryLinguistics #LanguageAndFood
![I will use the opportunity of this short presentation to document an emerging line of investigation which sits at the intersection of two of my research strands: elite discourse and the sociolinguistics of waste. Specifically, I want to draw a link between conspicuous waste (Veblen 1994 [1899]) and hedonistic waste (Iqani 2020) in the context of high-end eating practices – some reasonably banal, others perfectly spectacular. What is quite apparent is how performances of eliteness are inevitably predicated on excessive, pleasurable wasting, which I will demonstrate by way of various completed or ongoing case studies.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ar45qr6d3fs6nbb5uvewrrmp/bafkreifiigdzta2nudocwtfhzxnwnmi3bko4toxt4h7y72ioimznccgwt4)
I will use the opportunity of this short presentation to document an emerging line of investigation which sits at the intersection of two of my research strands: elite discourse and the sociolinguistics of waste. Specifically, I want to draw a link between conspicuous waste (Veblen 1994 [1899]) and hedonistic waste (Iqani 2020) in the context of high-end eating practices – some reasonably banal, others perfectly spectacular. What is quite apparent is how performances of eliteness are inevitably predicated on excessive, pleasurable wasting, which I will demonstrate by way of various completed or ongoing case studies.
🍩🍩🍩Time for our #BæFoLa (Bayreuth-Berlin Food and Language talks) season 8 finale! 🍩🍩🍩
June 27, 12:30-13:30 CEST
Crispin Thurlow (Bern)
"Super-Elite Feasting: On the Intersection of Conspicuous and Hedonistic Waste"
Let me know if you'd like the Zoom link!
#LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics
Veganism has experienced a surge in popularity in recent years. In social media, the type of vegan influencer has emerged who demonstrates the benefits and everyday requirements of such a diet and lifestyle to a broad audience. The talk focuses on the question of how knowledge about veganism is produced and disseminated in social media and how pressing discourses are taken up in the process. The focus is on how ‘vegan knowledge production’ at the interface of natural sciences, philosophy and ethics, the food industry, animal rights activism and health and sustainability discourses is linked to the everyday perspective of vegans. To this end, the talk will examine genres and communicative practices of vegan influencers (e.g., the veganization of recipes, vegan #WhatIEatInADay videos, product tests, shopping tutorials or formats such as ‘debate a vegan’) and work out how they react to the fundamental question ‘how to live vegan’. Based on this, it examines what (new) knowledge is communicated and made relevant in the context of an omnivorous society. Organized by Sofia Rüdiger (Berlin) & Susanne Mühleisen (Bayreuth) Join the mailing list: sofia.ruediger@fu-berlin.de Bayreuth-Berlin Food and Language Talks #BæFoLa How to Live Vegan: Communicative Practices and Genres of Vegan Influencers
This Friday (June 6), 12:30-13:30 CEST: the next #BaeFoLa session with Dominik Gerst @dgerst.bsky.social on "How to Live Vegan: Communicative Practices and Genres of Vegan Influencers" 🌿🥦🥬 All welcome (even carnivores 😱), DM me for Zoom link. #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics 🍩🍩🍩
conference poster showing pixelated fruits on an orange background
📣 Conference Announcement 🎉
Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices
March 26-28, 2026, at FU Berlin
The call for papers is now open & I couldn't be more excited about this: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/we06/digi... 😍
#LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics #Linguistics
Bayreuth-Berlin Food and Language Talks #BaeFola. Shows three donuts, one of them is a "Berliner" type (jam donut)
From Bayreuth to Berlin: #BaFoLa turns #BæFoLa. Talks will of course be as delicious as ever 😊
Program invitations are going out to the mailing list soon, join us if you're interested in #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics 🍩🍩🍩
Sneak peek at Season 8: tinyurl.com/BaeFoLa
#Linguistics
"Language and Food" special issue just submitted to the journal (angl.winter-verlag.de). 9 fantastic contributions (+ 1 introduction) on #CulinaryLinguistics. What a pleasure to work on this project! And the best thing: everything will be available open access so get ready for some delicious reads 🤩
title slide "Feasts of Spectacle: Analyzing Discourses of Food Overconsumption and Entertainment Online", photo of a man eating a giant pizza slide
Ready for my Dahlem Lecture later today! First time presenting this to my new colleagues here at FU Berlin. Looking forward to see what they think (and hoping it doesn't scare them away 🫣) #LanguageAndFood #CarnivalesqueConsumption #CulinaryLinguistics
In case you're interested in working on language & food with me at FU Berlin, check out this job ad for a (full-time) postdoc position: www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
(the ad is in German only but I guess auto translation is your friend) #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics
The next Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (aka GURT) is on Language and Food 🤩 so much for a 'niche' topic 🙃 #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics #Linguistics www.eventbrite.com/e/gurt-2025-...
A new #LatestInResearch by @ryfountain.bsky.social is available on the Language on Food Instagram channel. This installment: discourses of novel foods in Singapore by Keri Matwick
#LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics #Linguistics
www.instagram.com/p/DAGqTLLq8i...
short transcription break to write this week's "Language and Food" #WordKitchen Instagram post on.... eggs Benedict (inspired by a transcript today which featured ostrich eggs 🤯): www.instagram.com/p/C_SqgtwONw...
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