'Writing nutritionistically': A critical discourse analysis of lay people’s digital correspondence with the Swedish Food Agency
| Autor: | Paulina Nowicka, Elin Lövestam, Karolin Bergman, Karin Eli |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Sweden
Nutrition and Dietetics Health (social science) Writing food Emotions lay communication digestive oral and skin physiology Sociology (excluding Social Work Social Psychology and Social Anthropology) Gender studies Healthy eating Nutritionism Dietary advice healthy eating official dietary guidance Näringslära Critical discourse analysis scentific discourse Food Agency (sociology) Humans Sociology Sociologi (exklusive socialt arbete socialpsykologi och socialantropologi) |
| Zdroj: | Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 26:554-570 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7196 1363-4593 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/13634593211038533 |
| Popis: | This article analyzes lay people’s use of nutritionistic discourse in written correspondence with the Swedish Food Agency, an authority responsible for dietary advice. Examining 60 food related written digital messages, we apply a critical discourse analysis to parse the lexical items and grammar people use when constructing “food” in scientific terms. The findings show how message writers place nutrients at the discursive center. Message writers’ grammatical constructions instrumentalize food and eating. This is reinforced by the message writers’ frequent use of terms that indicate preciseness, such as numbers and amounts. Messages therefore emphasize the what, but not the how, of eating, implying a focus on food as subject to regulation and control. As such, eating is discursively reduced to an act of ingesting nutrients that can be decontextualized and managed in isolation—as entities to increase or avoid separately. These discursive features preclude the conceptualization of food choice and eating as subjective experiences of feelings, taste, and tradition. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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