BaeFoLa Flyer Program (Summer 2026) - Season 10 April 24, 12:30-13:30 CEST: Justyna Robinson (University of Sussex) Neology in Food and Drink Terminology: Recent Perspectives and Developments in Research by the European Network of Lexical Innovation May 22, 12:30-13:30 CEST: Luisa Marino (University of Naples "Federico II") "Good for You. Good for the Planet": Trust-Building and Corporate Legitimacy in Barilla's Sustainability Reports June 19, 15:00-16:00 CEST: Irene Cenni (Ghent University) & Camilla Vásquez (University of South Florida) Self-Branding of Italian Food Granfluencers July 17, 12:30-13:30 CEST: Revathi Suresh (St Joseph's University, Bengaluru) Chattichoru as Spectacle: Constructing Malayali Identity and Food Narratives in Online Spaces

The summer term is right around the corner & so is Season 10 of #BæFoLa (Bayreuth-Berlin Food and Language lecture series)! 🍩🍩🍩🍩
Join us for all things #LanguageAndFood, this season as international as ever with speakers from the UK, Italy, Belgium, the US, and India 🤩
#Linguistics

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

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

#LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

A pile of different packaged goods

One of the best things about being a #LanguageAndFood scholar: guests bring you delicious goodies from around the world. Here's the very generous stash gifted by a visitor from Japan 😇

writing an annotated bibliography on language and food for a publisher: first annoying, but now weirdly into it 🙃
It's really quite amazing to return to the classics but also to see all the new work put out on #LanguageAndFood

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In Chinese reviews, for instance, similar ideas are conveyed through concepts closer to “charming” or “restrained”, drawing on social rather than physical imagery.

#langsky #linguistics #language #fooddiscourse #languageandfood

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Words that feel natural in English can sound strange, confusing or even anatomical in translation, & terms like “elegant” evoke very different cultural meanings in other markets.

#langsky #linguistics #language #fooddiscourse #languageandfood

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Wine may be a global, multi-billion-pound industry, but its vocabulary is rooted in particular cultural assumptions.

#langsky #linguistics #language #fooddiscourse #languageandfood

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The research behind the piece explores why that happens. Drawing on a review of 77 studies, it argues that the specialised language used to describe wine often excludes people rather than inviting them into the conversation.

#langsky #linguistics #language #fooddiscourse #languageandfood

Happening in ~three hours today 📽️👩‍🍳

#FoodTok goes #BaeFoLa!

#LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

DM me for Zoom link if you want to join spontaneously!

part of conference poster "Digital P(a)lates" showing pixelated fruit on a cutting board

The book of abstracts for "Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices" is ready & available online 🎉 Couldn't be more delighted to meet so many smart language and food scholars presenting on such delightful topics in ~ 2 months! 🍔🍜🥗

tinyurl.com/DigitalPalat...

#LanguageAndFood

BaeFoLa Flyer

It's the grand season finale of #BaeFoLa Season 9 and your last chance to attend a session this season:
Friday, Jan 30, 12:30-13:30 (CET)
Stefan Hauser (University of Teacher Education Zug): Dynamisation Processes in Cooking Videos on TikTok - A Media Linguistic Approach 📹👩‍🍳
#LanguageAndFood 🍩🍩🍩

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 🥕🥬🥦

workshop flyer

PPT title slide with a slice of pizza oozing cheese

looking forward to the Life and Afterlife of Excess workshop at the University of Bern today (turns out I took the right train after all 😉), followed by a guest lecture on Foodfluencers and the Discursive Construction of Overconsumption #LanguageAndFood #CarnivalesqueConsumption #Excess

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

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...
#LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

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

conference poster "Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices" Shows plates of pixel food (either complete or cut open)

Back in Berlin! Which concludes conference season 2025 (aka my little conference spress) and rings in an exciting time for our own conference #DigitalPalates -> Abstract submissions due in one week (October 1) 🍩🍩
Call for papers at: linguistlist.org/issues/36/14...
#LanguageAndFood

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

@sofiaruediger.bsky.social Not sure if this conference qualifies as #LanguageAndFood, but it’s going to be great regardless 😅

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 🍩

PPT title slide "New Kid on the Block?! Excessive Cooking Shows in the Cooking Show Ecology"

after a short stopover at home for laundry (and a wedding + a hike), I'm on the way to Lille to attend Food and Communication 4. We are very excited to present first results of our excessive cooking shows project 🍩🍳🔥 #LanguageAndFood #CarnivalesqueConsumption

Second call for papers for Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices at FU Berlin. Abstracts due October 1 #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

Digital P(a)lates

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