Shaping food and well-being discourse across genres, contexts and centuries

The work explores how discourses surrounding food, diet, and nutrition have contributed to shaping and redefining ideas of health and well-being across time. It combines diachronic investigations of earlier centuries with analyses of contemporary discourses, offering a multifaceted view of how notions of well-being are constructed through language and culture. By examining a wide range of genres - from medical treatises and recipe books to media and digital communication - the study reveals food discourse as a privileged site for observing how linguistic choices and cultural practices reflect and shape evolving conceptions of health, identity, and the good life.