Brian W. King
List of John Benjamins publications for which Brian W. King plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 2211-3770 | E-ISSN 2211-3789
Articles
2013 How permeable is the formal-informal boundary at work? An ethnographic account of the role of food in workplace discourse Culinary Linguistics: The chef's special, Gerhardt, Cornelia, Maximiliane Frobenius and Susanne Ley (eds.), pp. 191–210 | Article
Talk about food at work is typically overlooked as peripheral, just like other relationally-oriented discourse (e.g. small talk and humor). Drawing on a data set of workplace interactions recorded in formal and informal settings, we demonstrate how food talk erodes and troubles formality boundaries. read more
2012 Location, lore and language: An erotic triangle Journal of Language and Sexuality 1:1, pp. 106–125 | Article
This study addresses how language interacts with the erotic and ‘place’ (our socially understood surroundings) in an online, text-only, mostly linguistic environment to create an erotic atmosphere, and how eroticised atmosphere relates to linguistically driven sexual subject formation. Analysis… read more