Food Talk: A Window into Inequality among University Students

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dc.contributor.authorDominguez-Whitehead, Yasmine
dc.contributor.authorWhitehead, Kevin A
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-22T13:53:30Z
dc.date.available2014-01-22T13:53:30Z
dc.date.issued2014-01
dc.departmentPsychology
dc.description.abstractAlthough initially related to the country’s colonial and apartheid history, material inequality in South Africa has deepened, with recent research suggesting that South Africa now has the highest levels of inequality in the world. In this paper, we examine the interactional reproduction of inequality by paying particular attention to the discursive and interactional practices employed in students’ talk about food. Specifically, we examine food-related troubles-talk and food-related jokes and humor, showing how students who described food-related troubles produced these troubles as shared and systemic, while students who produced food-related jokes displayed that they take for granted the material resources needed to have a range of food consumption choices available to them, while treating food consumption as a matter of individual choice. These orientations were collaboratively produced through a range of interactionally-organized practices, including patterns of alignment and dis-alignment, pronoun use, laughter, and aspects of the formulation of utterances. While our analysis primarily focuses on these discursive and interactional practices, we also consider how discursive practices can be linked to the material conditions of participants’ lives outside of the analyzed interactions.en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.identifier.citationDominguez-Whitehead, Y., & Whitehead, K. A. (2014). Food talk: A window into inequality among university students. Text & Talk, 34(1), 49-68.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1860-7349
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net10539/13577
dc.language.isoen_USen_ZA
dc.publisherDe Gruyter Moutonen_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Human and Community Development
dc.subjectInequalityen_ZA
dc.subjectFood talken_ZA
dc.subjectTroubles-talken_ZA
dc.subjectJokesen_ZA
dc.subjectHumoren_ZA
dc.subjectUniversity studentsen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_ZA
dc.titleFood Talk: A Window into Inequality among University Studentsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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