Delicious Words: East Asian Food Words in English

ISBN-13: 9780367337704 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 07/20/2020 Series: Routledge Studies in East Asian Translation Pages: 154 Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d) As societies across the globe are becoming increasingly interwoven at an unprecedented speed and across an impressive scope, so too is the world of food, allowing the English language to develop an ever-widening culinary vocabulary. This book examines the lives of such words in today's discourse on eating and drinking, focusing on foreign - particularly East Asian - influences on culinary terms in English, and how words are born and evolve in a modern transcultural environment. Through the lens of culinary words, this book demonstrates that foreign-origin and hybrid words, previously considered marginal, have become a main source of new imports into our daily lexicon. With case studies from Japan to Mongolia, Hong Kong to Korea, China to Vietnam, and beyond, this book examines how more and more wo