Much socialization of children into healthy food practices takes place in the educational system. However, teachers' understandings of healthy food may differ from those of students and parents. Furthermore, health is connected to respectability. Thus, food socialization concerns more than nutritional values. This study examines lunchtime interactions between minority students and majority teachers in a Danish classroom. I show that certain traditional food items (rye bread) are treated as superior to certain others that minority children regularly bring. Children are accountable for lunch boxes, and cultural and personal preferences are disregarded if at odds with dominant understandings of healthy food. [language socialization, classroom interaction, respectability, multicultural classroom, interaction analyses]

It is of general interest to the study of language in society how ideologies motivating linguistic hegemony get formulated in the context of increasing diversity. This includes if and how linguistic diversity surfaces under conditions that are clearly disfavouring it, and why or why not it happens. Also, we need to know how ideologies of language surface at the micro-level, and how they are continuously passed on, shared, negotiated or contested. These are central issues in this study of socialization into a condition and an ideology of linguistic hegemony in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is illustrated how school-authorities, parents and children co-create Danish dominance and a linguistic ideology of monolingualism during the first school year. The primary focus is on two school-beginners with minority language background in a linguistically diverse classroom, and the linguistic registers of particular interest are Danish, the majority language, and Turkish, an immigrant language. The article builds on field-notes, ethnographic interviews, video-and audio-recordings. Linguistic Ethnography and Language Socialization constitute the methodological frameworks, and Silverstein's 'total linguistic fact' forms an analytic principle.Europa karakteriseres af stigende befolkningsmaessig diversitet. Ikke mindst skolerne er dog stadig domineret af ideologier, der motiverer etsproget sproglig hegemoni. Det er af stor betydning for studiet af sprog i samfundet, hvordan sproglig mangfoldighed kommer til udtryk under betingelser, der defavoriserer den, samt hvorfor eller hvorfor ikke det sker. Dette omfatter ogs a, hvordan sproglige ideologier løbende deles, forhandles eller anfaegtes af deltagere. I denne artikel undersøges socialisering til en tilstand af og ideologi om dansksproget sproglig hegemoni i København, Danmark. Det demonstreres, hvordan skoleledelse, foraeldre og børn samkonstruerer den gaeldende ideologi over det første skole ar. Fokus er p a to skolestartende børn med minoritetsbaggrund i et sprogligt mangfoldigt klassevaerelse og p a relationen mellem dansk, flertalssproget, og tyrkisk, et mindretalssprog. Feltnoter, etnografiske interviews, video-og lydoptagelser inddrages. Sproglig etnografi og sproglig socialisering udgør Journal of Sociolinguistics 17/3, 2013: 355-375

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We interrogate the many ways that language and food intersect. Food and its uses provide setting and structure for language, just as language and its uses constrain and inform food activities. We illuminate where and how food and language co-occur and how they are dynamically co-constitutive, foregrounding the potential for food-and-language scholarship to contribute to understandings of political economic processes and structures. We organize our review around the mutual production, consumption, and circulation of food and language. We show that the richness of scholarship about consumption (especially around the family meal) has not been matched by research concerning the production of food and language, whereas the co-constituting circulation of food and language contributes to new meanings and values for both. More research is needed to clarify the surging attention to food, which may be motivated by the complex global food system and the speed and ease of mediatization and circulation of food images and ideologies.

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