Generational positions at a family dinner: Food morality and social order

Language in Society

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 405-426

  Aronsson, Karin ^a   Gottzén, Lucas ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Affective stances; Alignments; Caretaker positions; Dinnertime; Family life; Food morality; Generational positions; Language socialization; Negotiations; Social age

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952456251     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: 14698013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404511000455     Document Type: Article

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