The Impact of Fitness, Food, and Body Language on Women’s Relationships with Their Bodies


The Objective

In my Language, Culture, and Cognition class, my partner and I investigated how the linguistics terms surrounding fitness, food, and the body affect women and their relationship with their bodies.

We analyzed how so many words and phrases are context-dependent, having so much fluctuation based on:

what culture is using it

what time frame is it being used

who is saying it

what the intentions are

Skills, And Such

This paper exhibits my deep understanding of how food/ fitness culture has an impact on linguistics and each’s cognition

  • I analyzed the possible different meanings behind each word and how they could very based on sub-culture,

  • I made linguistic concepts understandable for a general audience.

  • I illustrated my understand of how linguistic terms revolving food and fitness has changed over the years.

  • I investigated how messages are framed linguistically to promote certain ideals or products

Key Takeaways…

Completing this paper furthered my understanding of how ever-changing and exhausting it is as a woman to keep up with different body ideals that are relevant in the media. I also acknowledged how deeply this affects women as it passes through generations.

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