Call for papers - Linguistics and Food
Dear ReN-Foodies,
I am writing today to present a project that I hope some of you will be interested in. For a few years I have been active in the German Culinaristics Forum, an interdisciplinary network based in Germany that discusses issues surrounding food, culture and culinary science and also issues several publications. A few years ago, for example, we contributed to a volume on the "Culinaristics of Breakfast", which reached a large audience (and respectable sales figures) in Germany. Sadly, the focus is almost exclusively on German-language publications, which means that most of the research by our own Linguistics of Food network does not reach the forum’s participants and partners.
I have been asked by the founders of the network to explore and edit a volume on “Linguistik und Essen” (linguistics and food). It is scheduled for late 2023 or early 2024 and would offer an excellent opportunity for showcasing our own research in this setting, since we will accept contributions in German, English and French. I think this offers the excellent opportunity to showcase our own network's research, and in particular to establish industry and institutional contacts in central Europe. The Culinaristics Forum has an excellent network in the Upper Rhine region and cooperated, for example, with the German Bakers’n Association and the federal states of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg on a campaign for the revival of the school breakfast.
Now my question: would any of you be interested in contributing an article to this planned publication? The volume is in German as part of the Wissenschaftsforum Kulinaristik series, but we would also accept contributions in other languages, in particular English, which then would be translated by the publisher during the publication process. The scope is very broad, and the volume will contain around 30 contributions, offering ample opportunity to showcase different linguistic research areas at the interface between language, discourse and culture. Articles are pretty flexible in length (4000-7000 words) and would only have to be finalized in 2023. Of course all articles would undergo a peer review process.
You all have manifold demands on your time, but I hope you will consider contributing. As this is still a project that will have to be greenlighted by the publishers, all I would need for now is a preliminary expression of interest by February 28, 2022 with a tentative (but broadly appealing) title. The publisher meeting is in early March, and I would then contact potential contributors with details on the further publication process.
The common theme for the volume would be just that, “linguistics and food”, preferably with a perspective that combines language aspects with a broader perspective on discourse, cultural or historical settings, genres and their development, interactional aspects auch as food talk over and during meals, pragmatics, aesthetics, multimodality, applied aspects such as business and marketing, or even food politics and policy. In sum, this would be the ideal setting to showcase either your existing English-language research to the German-language research community, or to focus on a topic that you always wanted to follow up on. A short overview of the forum’s activities and themes can also be found here: https://www.kulinaristik.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Flyer_english.pdf.
Think about it - it would be great to hear from you!
All best,
Stefan
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Diemer
International Business Communication and Digital Business
Environmental Campus Birkenfeld | Trier University of Applied Sciences | Germany
s.diemer@umwelt-campus.de
umwelt-campus.de/s.diemer
Dear ReN-Foodies,
I am writing today to present a project that I hope some of you will be interested in. For a few years I have been active in the German Culinaristics Forum, an interdisciplinary network based in Germany that discusses issues surrounding food, culture and culinary science and also issues several publications. A few years ago, for example, we contributed to a volume on the "Culinaristics of Breakfast", which reached a large audience (and respectable sales figures) in Germany. Sadly, the focus is almost exclusively on German-language publications, which means that most of the research by our own Linguistics of Food network does not reach the forum’s participants and partners.
I have been asked by the founders of the network to explore and edit a volume on “Linguistik und Essen” (linguistics and food). It is scheduled for late 2023 or early 2024 and would offer an excellent opportunity for showcasing our own research in this setting, since we will accept contributions in German, English and French. I think this offers the excellent opportunity to showcase our own network's research, and in particular to establish industry and institutional contacts in central Europe. The Culinaristics Forum has an excellent network in the Upper Rhine region and cooperated, for example, with the German Bakers’n Association and the federal states of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg on a campaign for the revival of the school breakfast.
Now my question: would any of you be interested in contributing an article to this planned publication? The volume is in German as part of the Wissenschaftsforum Kulinaristik series, but we would also accept contributions in other languages, in particular English, which then would be translated by the publisher during the publication process. The scope is very broad, and the volume will contain around 30 contributions, offering ample opportunity to showcase different linguistic research areas at the interface between language, discourse and culture. Articles are pretty flexible in length (4000-7000 words) and would only have to be finalized in 2023. Of course all articles would undergo a peer review process.
You all have manifold demands on your time, but I hope you will consider contributing. As this is still a project that will have to be greenlighted by the publishers, all I would need for now is a preliminary expression of interest by February 28, 2022 with a tentative (but broadly appealing) title. The publisher meeting is in early March, and I would then contact potential contributors with details on the further publication process.
The common theme for the volume would be just that, “linguistics and food”, preferably with a perspective that combines language aspects with a broader perspective on discourse, cultural or historical settings, genres and their development, interactional aspects auch as food talk over and during meals, pragmatics, aesthetics, multimodality, applied aspects such as business and marketing, or even food politics and policy. In sum, this would be the ideal setting to showcase either your existing English-language research to the German-language research community, or to focus on a topic that you always wanted to follow up on. A short overview of the forum’s activities and themes can also be found here: https://www.kulinaristik.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Flyer_english.pdf.
Think about it - it would be great to hear from you!
All best,
Stefan
--
Prof. Dr. Stefan Diemer
International Business Communication and Digital Business
Environmental Campus Birkenfeld | Trier University of Applied Sciences | Germany
s.diemer@umwelt-campus.de
umwelt-campus.de/s.diemer