TY - JOUR
T1 - “The illusion or the truth?”
T2 - backstage constructions of authenticity in an up-market restaurant
AU - Maegaard, Marie
AU - Karrebæk, Martha Sif
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - Building on recent sociolinguistic and anthropological theories on authenticity, in this paper we take a sociolinguistic perspective on the construction of authenticity in a Copenhagen-based Bornholmian restaurant. Focus is on the tensions between different understandings of authenticity in the creation of a new predinner drink. Data include interactions between owner and staff where ingredients, serving, and glass design are negotiated, all connected to the general aim of creating a recognizable Bornholmian product. Through detailed discourse analyses it is shown how the potentiality of authenticity is created backstage in a contemporary commercial enterprise, and how understandings of authenticity as inherent quality or performed are not necessarily mutually excluding, but rather co-existing in contemporary commercial cultural encounters.
AB - Building on recent sociolinguistic and anthropological theories on authenticity, in this paper we take a sociolinguistic perspective on the construction of authenticity in a Copenhagen-based Bornholmian restaurant. Focus is on the tensions between different understandings of authenticity in the creation of a new predinner drink. Data include interactions between owner and staff where ingredients, serving, and glass design are negotiated, all connected to the general aim of creating a recognizable Bornholmian product. Through detailed discourse analyses it is shown how the potentiality of authenticity is created backstage in a contemporary commercial enterprise, and how understandings of authenticity as inherent quality or performed are not necessarily mutually excluding, but rather co-existing in contemporary commercial cultural encounters.
U2 - 10.1016/j.langcom.2019.06.001
DO - 10.1016/j.langcom.2019.06.001
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0271-5309
VL - 69
SP - 54
EP - 66
JO - Language and Communication
JF - Language and Communication
ER -