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Sweet Talking: Food, Language, and Democracy
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Cook, Guy – Language Teaching, 2010
At a time of diminishing resources, the sum of apparently minor personal decisions about food can have immense impact. These individual choices are heavily influenced by language, as those with vested interests seek to persuade individuals to act in certain ways. This makes the language of food politics a fitting area for an expanding applied…
Descriptors: Democracy, Applied Linguistics, Public Policy, Decision Making