Recent Advances in Chemical Recycling of Polyethylene Terephthalate Waste into Value Added Products for Sustainable Coating Solutions- Hope Vs Hype

In the current era of globalization, plastics are an indispensable part of our daily life; from morning toothbrush to night dinner table, plastics are everywhere in our daily life. In...

Reasoning Talk at Chinese Families’ Dinner Table: Across Three Generations and Different Communicative Contexts

This study examines the feature of reasoning talk used by 37 Chinese families at the dinner table across three generations with the background of co-parenting and in consideration of different communicative contexts. Drawing upon Hasan’s semantic framework, reasons were mainly coded as logical or social types. We categorize the communicative context of reasoning talk into contextualized (meal-related) and decontextualized topics. When the proportion of social reasoning was found slightly higher than that of logical reasoning, the families’ reasoning talk account for only 3.85% of the total language. Specifically, the count of mothers’ total reasoning talk was significantly above other family members, while there were no significant differences among the other participants. The effect of the communicative contexts on family members’ social reasoning was found. The reasoning talk grounded on local rules (family-made rules) and coercive power occurred significantly more frequently in contextualized than decontextualized context. A higher rate of local-rule grounded reasoning talk of all family members appeared in contextualized than decontextualized context, and this gap was particularly obvious among mothers. These findings reveal the significant role of mothers in family communications and confirm the pedagogical values of decontextualized communicative context for promoting children’s learning opportunities at the dinner table.

Des mets et des mots : nommer les mets dans la littérature du XVIe siècle espagnol

The Renaissance believed in the creative power of names. Particularly in 16th-century Spain, there was an effort to put words on a whole series of new realities, particularly those of the New World, where the discovery of new vegetal, animal and mineral species multiplied the need for new terms, or for broadening the scope of those that already existed. Literary texts largely integrated this requirement. Literature was thus going to name the world, especially in a space to which it granted a renewed place: the table, all the more so since the meal makes it possible to immobilise people momentarily, which makes it possible for language to unfolding with greater ease, to really invest the space. Sitting at the dinner table sets the conditions necessary for a discussion to take place. The authors at the time therefore often resorted to it. At the table, the man discusses the most diverse subjects from all over the world. But, inevitably, what he is looking at in front of him, the food, will prevail in his reflection. Hence a marked interest in food vocabulary in the texts, particularly through a real fascination for certain dishes. But naming the dishes also makes it possible to touch on issues that go far beyond food itself: what then do words that talk about dishes really talk about? This is what we will try to identify here.

Testing an Immersive Virtual Environment for Decreasing Intergroup Anxiety among University Students: An Interpersonal Perspective

This study examined the use of an immersive virtual environment (IVE) in decreasing intergroup anxiety among university students. In Dinner-time360 , the students engaged in an interpersonal encounter by sharing a virtual dinner table with someone from another linguistic or cultural group. A control group watched the documentary in a traditional 2D format. The re-sults showed that the documentary reduced intergroup anxiety in both situa-tions, particularly among students with high anxiety who engaged in the IVE. For the IVE viewers, the decrease in intergroup anxiety was connected to two interpersonal elements: perceptions of the character’s immediacy and an in-creased level of homophily. These findings provide insights into the possibil-ities of IVEs in multicultural learning among university students.

Food “Insiders”

This chapter presents additional data from Mapes’s ethnographic fieldwork in Brooklyn, New York. Here she examines the dinner table as a less-institutional setting in which participants engage in similar acts of (dis)avowal. Using interactional sociolinguistic methods, Mapes demonstrates how elite authenticity is present in talk about food in private settings, where the speech is informal and uncalculated. Furthermore, in this chapter she more specifically considers how shared values and norms come to be interactionally achieved and constituted in a so-called community of practice. Ultimately, this chapter offers insight into how exactly elite authenticity comes to be produced and (re)circulated in the minutiae of everyday practices and interactions, such as those that occur during mealtime conversations.

Correction to: Student Loans at the Dinner Table: Family Communication Patterns About Student Loans Before Accrual and During Repayment

A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10834-021-09772-6