{"title":"Interactional and cultural shaping of appetite: Children's talk about food taste during meal and snack time in Japanese preschool.","authors":"Matthew Burdelski","doi":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107930","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper employs multimodal conversation analysis to explore young children's talk about food in Japanese preschools during meal and snack time. Based on video-recordings of naturally occurring interaction in two preschools, it focuses on four episodes in which children initiated assessments of food taste to teachers or peers. The analysis examines the communicative resources (e.g., lexicon, gaze, gesture) that children deploy in setting-up, initiating, carrying out, and closing down assessment activities; the ways that recipients respond; and how children respond when they do not receive uptake. Analysis of peer interaction, a sub-set of the current analysis, reveals how assessment activities can be a site of (dis)agreement, negotiation, and even conflict. The paper builds on prior work on interaction and socialization into food taste, stance, and relationships in ways that provide a deeper understanding of assessments of food taste in preschool and children's participation in commensal activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":242,"journal":{"name":"Appetite","volume":" ","pages":"107930"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Appetite","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2025.107930","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper employs multimodal conversation analysis to explore young children's talk about food in Japanese preschools during meal and snack time. Based on video-recordings of naturally occurring interaction in two preschools, it focuses on four episodes in which children initiated assessments of food taste to teachers or peers. The analysis examines the communicative resources (e.g., lexicon, gaze, gesture) that children deploy in setting-up, initiating, carrying out, and closing down assessment activities; the ways that recipients respond; and how children respond when they do not receive uptake. Analysis of peer interaction, a sub-set of the current analysis, reveals how assessment activities can be a site of (dis)agreement, negotiation, and even conflict. The paper builds on prior work on interaction and socialization into food taste, stance, and relationships in ways that provide a deeper understanding of assessments of food taste in preschool and children's participation in commensal activities.
期刊介绍:
Appetite is an international research journal specializing in cultural, social, psychological, sensory and physiological influences on the selection and intake of foods and drinks. It covers normal and disordered eating and drinking and welcomes studies of both human and non-human animal behaviour toward food. Appetite publishes research reports, reviews and commentaries. Thematic special issues appear regularly. From time to time the journal carries abstracts from professional meetings. Submissions to Appetite are expected to be based primarily on observations directly related to the selection and intake of foods and drinks; papers that are primarily focused on topics such as nutrition or obesity will not be considered unless they specifically make a novel scientific contribution to the understanding of appetite in line with the journal's aims and scope.