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Eating verbs in French and German: how do French and German express the relationship to food?

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As shown in previous papers (Farge, Depierre, 2008; Farge, 2007) the notion of taste is different in French, German and English. What seems to be a mere objective physiological sense is actually deeply influenced by language and culture. On the basis of these first insights, we shall analyse in this contribution the verbs of eating in French and German in order to determine whether the results obtained so far are confirmed. This will be an occasion to question the heuristic value of linguistic conclusions in the field of taste and food. After giving a first overview of former researches, we will focus on the two main verbs of eating in French and German, manger/ bouffer and essen/ fressen. We will then analyse the eating verbs of both languages. By doing this, an attempt will be done at understanding how much language can reveal about the conception of eating in a given culture.

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hal-01917340 , version 1 (09-11-2018)

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Sylvain Farge. Eating verbs in French and German: how do French and German express the relationship to food?. First International Workshop on linguistic approaches to Food and Wine Description, Margarita Goded Rambaud; Alfredo Poves Luelmo, May 2009, Madrid, France. ⟨hal-01917340⟩

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