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Mushy peas or marmite your cup of tea?

Posted on 21 July 2016

York PhD asks "¿gusto o disgusto?"

Veronica Gonzalez Temer, a PhD student in Language and Communication, presented some of her work at the recent conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies in Paris. Her work is a study of how people agree or disagree on their opinions of foods that are new to them -- she has Chileans tasting British products like mushy peas, liquorice, mince pies and Marmite, and she tracks how they move from smelling the food to tasting it, then saying what they think of it. Who says what they think first? What do they do to agree or disagree with each other? And more broadly, what's the role of facial expression alongside language? Veronica's work is jointly supervised by Dr Richard Ogden (L&LS) and Dr Merran Toerien (Sociology).

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