Cornelia Gerhardt

List of John Benjamins publications in which Cornelia Gerhardt is involved.

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Culinary Linguistics: The chef's special

Edited by Cornelia Gerhardt, Maximiliane Frobenius and Susanne Ley

Language and food are universal to humankind. Language accomplishes more than a pure exchange of information, and food caters for more than mere subsistence. Both represent crucial sites for socialization, identity construction, and the everyday fabrication and perception of the world as a… read more
[Culture and Language Use, 10] 2013. xvi, 347 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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The Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life

Edited by Ruth Ayaß and Cornelia Gerhardt

This volume contributes to the burgeoning field of interactional linguistic media studies. It focuses on how people appropriate media in their daily lives. Thus here it is not the talk in the medium itself, but naturally occurring interactions in different media reception situations that are… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 224] 2012. vii, 308 pp.
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Gerhardt, Cornelia, Ben Clarke and Justin Lecarpentier 2021 Naming rights sponsorship in Europe: Fan reactions to stadium renamings in the Premier League, Bundesliga and Ligue 1AILA Review 34:2, pp. 212–239 | Article
Football stadiums have traditionally been named after local sites (e.g. Goodison Park, Everton FC) or regions (Ruhrstadion, VfL Bochum). As big business takes increasing precedence in decision making in football at large (e.g. associations and leagues, regarding fixtures, media coverage,… read more
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Recipes in (vegan) food blogs are often advertised as not having certain ingredients such as gluten or refined sugar. In the comments sections of posts topicalising such exgredients (linguistically, no-X constructions like soy-free or no nuts), extreme case formulations (e.g. always or entirely)… read more
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Gerhardt, Cornelia 2013 Food and language – language and foodCulinary Linguistics: The chef's special, Gerhardt, Cornelia, Maximiliane Frobenius and Susanne Ley (eds.), pp. 3–50 | Article
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Gerhardt, Cornelia 2012 Notability: The construction of current events in talk-in-interactionThe Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life, Ayaß, Ruth and Cornelia Gerhardt (eds.), pp. 47–78 | Article
In this paper, I analyze the behavior of television viewers while watching matches of the men’s FIFA World Cup live on television. My main focus will be sudden unannounced shifts from focused talk-in-interaction between the participants to a complete orientation on the happenings on television. read more
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Gerhardt, Cornelia 2012 Overview of the volumeThe Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life, Ayaß, Ruth and Cornelia Gerhardt (eds.), pp. 17–20 | Article
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Gerhardt, Cornelia 2009 Multimodal and intertextual humor in the media reception situation: The case of watching football on TVHumor in Interaction, Norrick, Neal R. and Delia Chiaro (eds.), pp. 79–98 | Article
Based on natural data from media reception, the talk of television viewers watching football matches is analysed with regards to humor. Remarks on television are often greeted by (shared) laugher of the fans. However, laughter as such does not necessarily indicate humor. Instead, the celebrating… read more
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Gerhardt, Cornelia 2007 Watching Television: The dilemma of gazeToegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen 77, pp. 91–101 | Article
This paper describes the gaze behaviour of television viewers talking to each other. It is based on the ATTAC-corpus which consists of transcribed video recordings of Britons watching football at home on TV. In regular everyday conversation, generally people tend to face each other, and gaze is… read more
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