Week 10: Language of Recipe

The present section discusses the recipe from a purely linguistic point of view as a recognizable language variety whose syntax and vocabulary have developed certain distinctive features in response to different factors of external conditioning. The discussion of the recipe is based on the assumption that the recipe, as characterized by the setting in which it is typically used, by the communicative functions it has and by the participants it involves, developed over the course of time and through its repeated and regular occurrences in society and throughout history certain identifying markers of its language structure and language use, which are different from language used on other occasions, in different settings, i.e. in different communicative situations.

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