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La cuisine en pandémie
2022
Le travail de Jean-Jacques Boutaud sur la sémiotique de l’alimentation est un point de repère fondamental, soit pour les études sur la gastronomie, soit pour celles sur la signification. L’ouvrage Le sens gourmand a tracé des parcours de recherche sur la commensalité, le goût et les aliments qui sont encore très débattus par les savants, comme un certain nombre d’essais sur des thèmes similaires que Jean-Jacques a publié tout au long de sa brillante carrière. Les modèles et les méthodes qu’il a proposés sont essentiels pour le sémioticien intéressé à reconstruire les structures mobiles du langage de la nourriture et, en ce qui me concerne, je les utilise abondamment dans mon travail.
Gastromania on italian tv
2021
By turning on the TV, at any time of the day or night, one can comeacross programs in which food is the undisputed protagonist. Actually, thepresence of food on TV is not a contemporary phenomenon, but it goesback to the origins of television. Over time, the way of narrating food hasbeen transformed, as well as the role attributed to it and the values (gastronomicand social) associated to it.In this paper, after having traced a historical overview of Italian foodtelevision programming, we focus on the analysis of four recent programs.The objective is to understand how settings, rhythmic and temporal scansion,and the distribution of roles among the various actors involved configurenarratives…
Objet et préfiguration
2010
We call prefigurative an object whose primary function is to allow whoever manipulates it to represent an object, a situation, an action that has not yet happened ; the prefigured object is particular because it not only exists to convey meaning but also to inform, to get us to believe and finally to make us act. This article aims to outline the semiotic analysis of one of these objects, the restaurant menu: leaving aside the verbal text, we shall examine the material object which is its support (paper, cardboard, slate, screen, etc..) and see that it directs our receptions and predisposes us by its material, its size, its touch, its typography and its layout to perceive the true taste of t…
Forms of gastronomic camouflage: veridiction in the kitchen
2022
In this essay, we analyse the regimes of truth and the forms of culinary camouflage inscribed in some signature dishes by several well-known Italian chefs, whose work is emblematic of the various fictional trends in gastronomy. In doing so, we will keep in mind the so-called semiotic square of veridiction that discursive semiotics has been proposing and using for some time. The analysis reveals how the gastronomic discourse of the Italian haute cousine produces effects of illusion, secrecy, falsehood and truth. The concurrence of these veridiction modes allows for an explicit model which accounts for the various styles of camouflage and thus describes current tendencies in contemporary cuis…
Cucina politica: percorsi semiotici
2019
On the one hand, cuisine and politics have always been considered two very different semi-spheres. On the other hand, considering the issue more in depth, cooking and politics are both strategies and tactics for governing the community. What I would like to do in this essay is to highlight the unexpected of the (multiple) relations of cooking and politics. Starting from a Latourian epistemological perspective, which considers the social collective as a whole formed by human and non-human actors, and governed by a series of management, control and enhancement processes that are similar to the world of gastronomy and that of politics strictly understood.
Culture and Politics of Laziness. From Fairy Tales to Oblomov and Bartleby
2021
La these de cet article est que la paresse n’est pas une propriete psychologique d’un sujet individuel mais un sentiment collectif : c’est une reaction, voire une rebellion, contre ceux qui nous enferment dans une culture qui voit l’activite comme une valeur supreme, souvent comme une fin en soi. La paresse est la reponse a ceux qui nous forcent a faire et a exagerer, a nous donner a nos occupations avec zele et constance, devouement total et perseverance aveugle. Donc, il n’est pas vrai qu’une personne paresseuse ne fait rien, ou plutot qu’elle fait tout ce qu’elle peut pour ne rien faire. Le paresseux travaille frenetiquement afin de creer les conditions parfaites qui lui permettent d’act…
Interpretation of journalistic photographs as an instrument of visual literacy education
2016
Images are produced, used and distributed on an enormous scale. However, the skills of understanding, interpreting and using images as well as thinking and learning in terms of images are taken for granted, and thus, they are not sufficiently taught and developed, especially in higher education. The need for introducing visual literacy into the curriculum was identified in late 1960s, but no concrete guidelines have followed. This study proposes to apply interpretation of journalistic photographs as an instrument of visual literacy education. The main focus is on the image interpretation process and the kinds of meanings viewers apply to a photograph in the interpretation process. In each o…
Viittomakielet hybridisysteemeinä - hämärärajaisuus ja epäkonventionaalisuus osana viittomakielten rakennetta
2018
Tässä artikkelissa tarkastellaan hämärärajaisuutta ja epäkonventionaalisuutta osana joitakin kaikista viittomakielistä löydettyjä yksiköitä ja rakenteita ja niiden käyttöä. Täsmällisemmin artikkelin fokuksessa ovat tietyt muodoltaan ja merkitykseltään tilanteisesti muuntuvat viittomat (erityisesti niin kutsutut osittain leksikaaliset viittomat) sekä eräänlainen vaihteleva-asteinen näytteleminen (niin kutsuttu konstruoitu toiminta), jota viittojat käyttävät tuottamiensa syntaktisten rakenteiden osana ja niiden sijaan. Käytännössä artikkeli esittelee näkemyksen, jonka mukaan molemmissa tarkastelun kohteena olevissa ilmiöissä on kyse samasta asiasta eli kielen diskreettien ja konventionaaliste…