On dinning while talking and bonding while drinking: an analysis of seven common phrases about dinner as a social event

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Miguel Angel Sahagún Padilla

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This essay includes a reflexive detailed description of seven recurring phrases that are uttered when dining with friends at home. These sentences are approached as nodes of a network of symbolic material relations and described in terms of their links with other elements of the network, whilst simultaneously detailing the social practices in which the sentences find their meaning. The results allow us to outline a social activity that is as ordinary as it is recurrent, highlighting both its complexity , its conditions of possibility and implications. In other words, the characteristics of the social world in which the sentences considered take place are presented and are shown to not only make sense but become necessary. The reflection is guided by a relational, symbolic materialistic vision of social life. 

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On dinning while talking and bonding while drinking: an analysis of seven common phrases about dinner as a social event. (2021). Uaricha, 18, 11-22. http://revistauaricha.umich.mx/ojs_uaricha/index.php/urp/article/view/422

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