Delicious Words

As societies across the globe are becoming increasingly interwoven, so too is the world of food. This book examines the lives of such words in today's discourse on eating and drinking, focusing on foreign influences on culinary terms in English, and how words are born and evolve in a transcultural environment.

Jieun Kiaer is an Associate Professor of Korean Language and Linguistics at the University of Oxford. Her research interests include the formation of translingual/transcultural words and dynamic lexicons. She is particularly interested in the role of social media in the global lexicon. Kiaer is the series editor for Routledge Studies in East Asian Translation and has most recently published Translingual Words (Routledge, 2019).

Table of Contents List of figures List of tables Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Food words as translingual words Chapter 2. Early encounters: first-generation food words Chapter 3. Fusion, localisation, and hybridity: second-generation food words Chapter 4. Globalisation and social media: the global food words Chapter 5. New words as cultural capital Bibliography Index