Culinary items and terms in Business Italian in Italian language teaching based on coursebooks „L’italiano in azienda” (2002) and „Un vero affare!” (2015) Cover Image

Kulinaryzmy i kulinaria w języku biznesowym w glottodydaktyce italianistycznej na podstawie podręczników „L’italiano in azienda” (2002) i „Un vero affare!” (2015)
Culinary items and terms in Business Italian in Italian language teaching based on coursebooks „L’italiano in azienda” (2002) and „Un vero affare!” (2015)

Author(s): Anna Godzich, Szymon Machowski
Subject(s): Sociolinguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Phraseology, Stylistics
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: culinary terms in business language teaching; human food; Business Italian didactics; teaching Italian as a foreign language;

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to analyzing the cultural context typical for food and its associated etiquette and rituals from 2 coursebooks on the Italian Business language, and aims at a) investigating to what extent coursebooks in Business Italian include both theoretical and practical content information on the Italian dining culture; b) reconstructing guidelines on etiquette for dining and socializing in professional settings in companies and with regard to the role of language in culture (Hall, 1976, Bańczerowski, et al., 1982). These objectives were fulfilled by performing a semantic analysis of the lexical content of 2 coursebooks by Giovanna Pelizza and Marco Mezzadri (2002 and 2015). For this purpose, a lexical corpus was formed by extracting culinary-related lexical items from the coursebooks. The remaining sources related to food in business culture (Meyer, 2023) was used as a point of reference for validation of the small corpus.

  • Issue Year: 62/2024
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 249-262
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish
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