Planning a Typical Italian Meal

A Family Reflection on Culture

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2390733
AutoresClotilde Pontecorvo (0000-0003-3944-1834), Alessandra Fasulo (0000-0003-4464-3895, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy)
Año1999
Volumen5
Número3
Páginas313-335
Fecha de publicación1999-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCulture & Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1354-067X • E-ISSN: 1461-7056
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1354067x9953004
OpenAlexW2096550469
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas29
Referencias citadas15

The paper addresses the issue of cultural descriptions as they are perceived and used within mundane conversation. We analyze a discussion of an Italian family about a future formal occasion (a party) in a foreign country (Austria), with foreign participants, in which they shall produce a typically Italian meal. The analysis shows how cultural descriptions are both a resource and a constraint when they must orient a practical activity which must be publicly acknowledged for its cultural typicality. Discrepancies are highlighted between cultural descriptions and ordinary practices, but it is also shown how culture (or 'cultural preferences') gets produced, at a less explicit level, within discursive practices, through turn-taking filtering, sequential architecture and selection of differentiated addressees. The socializing import of the discursive situation for the younger participants is also discussed, with reference to the relevant conversational devices

Conversation · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · Engineering · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Psychology · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence