Food-centred situations and identity diversification between predictability and creativity: a case study in AVT

In this paper we mean to investigate the following issues: how is food related to the transactional and interactional functions? How do the linguistic and non-linguistic codes interact in food-related scenes and how does this reflect in translation? To what extent is food talk predictable or creative, and how does it relate to ingrained cultural stereotypes? For the purpose we have collected a small corpus consisting of four recent films in which food performs a primary role, dating from 2007 to 2010 and accommodating different scenarios and countries: Eat, Pray, Love (2010), Julie & Julia (2009), No Reservations (2007), Ratatouille (2007).