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Title: | Eating your words: discursive psychology and the reconstruction of eating practices |
Authors: | Wiggins, Sally Potter, Jonathan Wildsmith, Aimee |
Keywords: | Conversation analysis Discourse analysis Discursive psychology Food and eating Methodology Rhetoric |
Issue Date: | 2001 |
Publisher: | © SAGE Publications |
Citation: | WIGGINS, S., POTTER, J. and WILDSMITH, A., 2001. Eating your words: discursive psychology and the reconstruction of eating practices. Journal of Health Psychology, 6 (1), pp. 5 - 15. |
Abstract: | Psychological research into
eating practices has focused
mainly on attitudes and
behaviour towards food, and
disorders of eating. Using
experimental and
questionnaire-based designs,
these studies place an emphasis
on individual consumption and
cognitive appraisal, overlooking
the interactive context in which
food is eaten. The current
article examines eating
practices in a more naturalistic
environment, using mealtime
conversations tape-recorded by
families at home. The empirical
data highlight three issues
concerning the discursive
construction of eating practices,
which raise problems for the
existing methodologies. These
are: (1) how the nature and
evaluation of food are
negotiable qualities; (2) the use
of participants’ physiological
states as rhetorical devices; and
(3) the variable construction of
norms of eating practices. The
article thus challenges some key
assumptions in the dominant
literature and indicates the
virtues of an approach to eating
practices using interactionally
based methodologies. |
Description: | This article was published in the Journal of Health Psychology [© SAGE Publications] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135910530100600101 |
Version: | Accepted for publication |
DOI: | 10.1177/135910530100600101 |
URI: | https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/9484 |
Publisher Link: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135910530100600101 |
ISSN: | 1359-1053 1461-7277 |
Appears in Collections: | Published Articles (Social Sciences)
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