Papers by Kathleen C Riley
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 2021
Emily C. Donaldson, Working with the Ancestors: Mana and Place in the Marquesas Islands (Seattle:... more Emily C. Donaldson, Working with the Ancestors: Mana and Place in the Marquesas Islands (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019), 250 pp., $30.00 (pbk), ISBN: 9780295745831.
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Food and Language, 2018
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Language Socialization, 2017
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Food and Language, 2018
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Food and language have been intertwined across human evolution via hand and tongue and throat and... more Food and language have been intertwined across human evolution via hand and tongue and throat and brain, hunting prayer and kitchen chatter, dinner discourse and labeling legislation. Thus, it should come as no surprise that they have been studied simultaneously in many contexts by anthropologists, linguists, philosophers, historians, and others. And varying approaches to these co-occurences have been developed: how food is structured like language, how food activities are organized by language use, and how food ideologies are carried through language. However, never have these various threads of co-occurrence and interplay been explicitly theorized together.
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This article explores the discourses produced, circulated, and enregistered by administrators, te... more This article explores the discourses produced, circulated, and enregistered by administrators, teachers, and parents around and about “good food” at an elite elementary school in New York City. The larger research goal was to understand how privileged school children are socialized into elite foodways (how to identify, procure, and consume food) and elite forms of food talk (the codes and registers used around and about food) that contribute to the social field within which they develop the cultural capital needed to succeed as privileged worker-consumers in the neoliberal, late-capitalist world their parents are building. Here the analytic focus is on the intertextuality and indexical stance-taking of adults at the school and how these contribute to the sedimentation of elite signs and values and their imbrication into a moral economy of food and language in this privileged setting. The negotiation of contradictory messaging holds some hope for the roles these children may play as ...
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Food Culture, 2017
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Anthropology News, 2016
An Anthropolitical Critique of the " Language Gap " Is language responsible for... more An Anthropolitical Critique of the " Language Gap " Is language responsible for poverty? If poor and minority parents spoke like rich white parents, would they too become rich and successful? That's the impression one gets from the nowfamiliar discourse about the language gap (or word gap, or 30 millionword gap) between children (of color) on welfare and children of professional (white) parents. This notion of a language gap is based on flawed and limited research yet has taken on a life of its own, circulating like those 200 Eskimo words for snow. Here's the background: In the 1980s, two psychologists, Hart and Risley, counted the words and utterances addressed to 42 infants and toddlers in families they classified as ranging from upper to lower socioeconomic status. They claimed to calculate the number and quality of utterances addressed directly to the children and to discern a correlation: the wealthiest children were hearing the greatest number of words (primarily in the form of " encouragement, " according to Hart and Risley) while the poorest children were hearing the fewest words (many " discouraging, " according to Hart and Risley). Extrapolating, they estimated that by the age of 3, the gap between children at the economic top and bottom amounted to a staggering 30 million words. Without investigating whether this pattern exists across contexts and country, they concluded that the language gap could explain the correlation between poverty and school failure (see the original study here and an early critique here).
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Duranti/The Handbook of Language Socialization, 2011
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Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender, 2003
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Spolsky/Handbook, 2008
Page 1. 398 Kathleen C. Riley 28 Language Socialization KATHLEEN C. RILEY Introduction Elinor Och... more Page 1. 398 Kathleen C. Riley 28 Language Socialization KATHLEEN C. RILEY Introduction Elinor Ochs and Bambi B. Schieffelin developed the concept of language socialization in the early 1980s to refer to the two intertwined ...
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