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I am a university student in Japan majoring English and I am now studying about food culture. Through this blog, I would like to introduce some tips about food cultures.
Firstly, I would like to introduce a book, that I have been reading throughout this class which lasts for half an year. The title is "The Language of Food: A linguist reads a menu" and it was written by Dan Jurafsky. Do you know it? Let me tell you about the author. He is a Professor and Chair of Linguistics and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, who was born in New York and brought up in California. He has written some textbooks such as "Speech and Language Processing" and the book I am introducing now, "The Language of Food: A Linguist reads a menu." Dan Jurafsky mainly studies computational linguistics, the relationships between human and machine processing and spoken language and conversation. At the same time, he works on the linguistics of food culture. From now, I would like to write about the book. There are thirteen chapters with the names of food for each chapters. Do you know how the name "ketchup" came? Did you know that this is a Chinese word? This word is now used all over the world as a global language, but it was a Chinese word with the meaning of "strained tomatoes." Isn't it interesting? And also, you can know the difference of each words, "chips", "crisps" and "french fries." I am now still reading, so I can't write the whole review, but I'll write about it sometimes when I get some more information. Don't miss it!
And that is all for today! Thank you again for visiting this blog, and reading until the end of my writing.
(Works Citated)
Dan Jurafsky - Bio. (n.d.). Retrieved November 17, 2016, from http://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/bio.html
