Taste and meaning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4896303 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ugo Volli (0000-0003-1994-4813, University of Turin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 2016 |
| Issue | 211 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Semiotica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/sem-2016-0106 |
| OpenAlex | W2394058785 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
A basic anthropological fact is that, although hunger is a constant experience in human history, not everything that from a biochemical point of view could be nutritious, in fact is eaten. In every human culture, food, not unlike language, is controlled by rich sets of rules that establish obligations and prohibitions, contextual bonds to time, and circumstances and syntactic structures for different types of meal. Often these rules - as well as linguistic ones - are unconscious, taken as "natural." All of these rules detach food from its simple and natural properties, and give it some meaning, although this meaning is not easy to define, making food more similar to a self-referential mark than to a regular text. In this paper I analyze a specific case of these almost linguistic alimentary systems, the set of the dietary laws in the Jewish tradition and in particular its complex alimentary interdictions. The hierarchical structure of these rules is discussed and the problem of the connected effects of sense is addressed
Constant (computer programming) · Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Natural (archaeology) · Point (geometry) · Property (philosophy) · Set (abstract data type) · Simple (philosophy) · Sociology · Taste · Unconscious mind · Computer Science · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |