VOLUME 9(3) • 2021
Obesity and “Hedonic Overeating”
ABSTRACT. Obesity has become an alarming public health problem due to its growing epidemic prevalence, the suffering it causes and the burden on health systems. Obesity is a complex, recurrent disease with social and psychological dimensions that affects all countries, all social backgrounds and age..
Food Symbolism in Bukovina Rituals
ABSTRACT. Our paper aims at revealing some of the foods that have been invested with symbolical value in the context of certain customs that are practiced in Bukovina: the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, Easter and Christmas. Sfințișorii (little saints), Paska (Easter bread), Pomana porcului (pig’s alms) ..
Perception Patterns in Food Discourse
ABSTRACT. In this article, we propose to describe the perception patterns that contribute to the creation of food discourse: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory. In our research, we analyse the occurrence of the sensorial terms in two cookbooks, to discover which of the five sens..
Normalising the Anorexic Body
ABSTRACT. Han Kang’s novel explores the relevance of food choices and eating habits to the articulation of gender relations and power structure in a family environment. The heroine’s vegetarianism and then anorexia, accompanied by escapist fantasies of withdrawal from the symbolic order of conformit..
The Romanian Domestic Universe
ABSTRACT. The second part of Alecsandri’s grammar (1863), entitled Vocabulary, continues the tradition of older grammars, which, in addition to the actual compartment of morphosyntax, also included lexical sequence, organized by onomasiological criteria. Micu-Șincai (and I. Piuariu-Molnar, 1788, had..