In social psychology, evaluative expressions have traditionally been understood in terms of their relationship to, and as the expression of, underlying ‘attitudes’. contrast, discursive approaches started to study part varied practices, considering what such are doing rather than attitudinal objects or other putative mental entities. this latter approach will be used examine construction food drink evaluations conversation. The data taken from a corpus family mealtimes recorded over period...

This article examines the expression of gustatory pleasure as an interactional and discursive construction. Psychological studies food eating typically focus on individual consumer, with bodily experiences conceptualized internal private events. It is argued that this approach underestimates role discourse nature consumption. The examined here a constructed evaluative activity, using conversational examples from family adult group mealtimes. "gustatory mmm" used for analysis. Intonation...

Abstract Those who attempt suicide have often been described as ‘crying for help’, and there are implications if such cries not taken seriously. This paper examines how users of an Internet forum ‘suicidal thoughts’ work up their authenticity in opening posts, these responded to by fellow users. Data were from two forums on over a period one month analysed using discursive psychology. The analysis demonstrates that participants display through four practices: narrative formatting, going...

Disgust is a complex phenomenon that pervades number of social situations. To date, disgust has primarily been understood as an individually experienced emotion or way defining boundaries between people objects; the detailed practices through which choreographed, however, have yet to be fully explored. The implications are particularly apparent when food and eating involved, it in such settings individuals, objects, coincide. In this paper, I argue enactment inherently event, we can evidence...

Discursive psychology is the broad title for a range of research done in different disciplinary contexts – communication, language, sociology and psychology. It moves theoretical analytic f ...

Language can be considered as not simply playing a role in behavior change but being foundational to how we understand people's itself. Focusing on the use of discursive categories everyday social interaction, this paper examines dispositional (such food “likes”) become “sticky” through invoked during one action treated relatively stable over time and used account for past future behavior. Data are video recordings children's eating practices taken from two large corpuses family meals...

Healthy eating is one of the main concerns for health organizations in UK, and has been widely promoted recent decades. Yet despite amount nutritional information available, levels obesity, heart disease other food-related diseases remain high. Existing research this area often uses individual accounts consumption to examine reasons why people may not be ‘healthily’. An alternative way approach issue how healthy advice constructed used everyday interaction. This tape-recorded family...

This study investigates the practice of "sounding for others," wherein one person vocalizes to enact someone else's putatively ongoing bodily sensation. We argue that it constitutes a collaborative way performing sensorial experiences. Examples include producing cries with others' strain or pain and parents sounding an mmm gustatory pleasure on their infant's behalf. Vocal sounds, loudness, duration are specifically deployed instructing experiences during novices' real-time performance...

The enjoyment of food and the sharing mealtimes is a normative cultural social practice. Empirical research on eating has, however, been rather neglected area across sciences, often marginalized in favor health or focusing individual preferences than shared enjoyment. Even with regards to children, their typically rated retrospectively via parental reports mealtime behavior. What missing an understanding how becomes normative, practice during mealtimes. This paper examines this issue context...

Tasting as a social practice can be enacted on behalf of others through precisely positioned nonlexical vocalizations gustatory mmms . This paper uses multimodal interaction analysis to detail the coordination parents and infants while starting feed solid foods; data are from families in Scotland. The focuses organization parental mmm s relation eye gaze, sequentiality, temporal hands, food, mouths demonstrate their use beginning, continuing, refocusing taste. proposes that order fully...

Tasting food is the first step toward diversifying eating habits, and studies with children have typically focused on their sensory education willingness to try new foods. While very little known about how taste foods during everyday mealtimes, EMCA (ethnomethodological conversation analytic) research adult tasting in naturalistic settings has demonstrated regular organisational patterns. This paper brings these two areas together, using insights of inform our understanding young preschool...

Assisted eating is a basic caring practice and the means through which many individuals receive adequate nutrition. Research in this area has noted challenges of helping others to eat while upholding their independence, though yet explicate how achieved detail across lifespan. This paper provides an empirical analysis assisted episodes two different institutions, detailing processes collaboratively between persons. Data are video-recorded infants during preschool lunches care home meals for...

This study engages both social psychological research on “attitudes” and discursive work “evaluative practices.” Methodological constraints in of these fields have resulted a relative lack attention to everyday interaction. By using conversational data, the current extends highlights constructive constructed nature food evaluations. Family mealtimes were audiotaped, transcribed, analyzed analytic procedures. Direct evaluative expressions such as “like” “nice” examined terms their...

Psychological research into eating practices has focused mainly on attitudes and behaviour towards food, disorders of eating. Using experimental questionnaire-based designs, these studies place an emphasis individual consumption cognitive appraisal, overlooking the interactive context in which food is eaten. The current article examines a more naturalistic environment, using mealtime conversations tape-recorded by families at home. empirical data highlight three issues concerning discursive...