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Wiggins2001
BibType ARTICLE
Key Wiggins2001
Author(s) Sally K. Wiggins, Jonathan Potter, Aimee Wildsmith
Title Eating Your Words: Discursive Psychology and the Reconstruction of Eating Practices
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Tag(s) EMCA, Discursive Psychology, Food, Eating, Methodology, Rhetoric, Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis
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Year 2001
Language English
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Journal Journal of Health Psychology
Volume 6
Number 1
Pages 5-15
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Abstract

Psychological research into eating practices has focused mainly on attitudes and behaviour towards food, and disorders of eating. Using experimental and questionnaire-based designs, these studies place an emphasis on individual consumption and cognitive appraisal, overlooking the interactive context in which food is eaten. The current article examines eating practices in a more naturalistic environment, using mealtime conversations tape-recorded by families at home. The empirical data highlight three issues concerning the discursive construction of eating practices, which raise problems for the existing methodologies. These are: (1) how the nature and evaluation of food are negotiable qualities; (2) the use of participants' physiological states as rhetorical devices; and (3) the variable construction of norms of eating practices. The article thus challenges some key assumptions in the dominant literature and indicates the virtues of an approach to eating practices using interactionally based methodologies.

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