Language of Food - Jurafsky Dan
Language of Food - Jurafsky Dan Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the words on the menu?In The…
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Language of Food - Jurafsky Dan
Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the words on the menu?In The Language of Food, Stanford University professor and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky peels away the mysteries from the foods we think we know. What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean?
Jurafsky points out the subtle meanings hidden in filler words like rich and crispy, zeroes in on the metaphors and storytelling tropes we rely on in restaurant reviews, and charts a microuniverse of marketing language on the back of a bag of potato chips.The fascinating journey through The Language of Food uncovers a global atlas of Thirteen chapters evoke the joy and discovery of reading a menu dotted with the sharp-eyed annotations of a linguist.