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"SHE JUST CALLED YOU HONEY": MY QUANDARY AT WAFFLE HOUSE.

An essay is presented on rhetorical strategies used to create relationships between people. It offers the views of a cultural outsider observing waitresses at a Southern United States Waffle House restaurant, where staff often use the epithet "honey" when speaking to customers. The author describes...

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Published in:ETC: A Review of General Semantics Vol. 68; no. 4; pp. 446 - 461
Main Author: Lunceford, Brett
Format: Essay
Published: Institute of General Semantics, Inc. Oct2011
Subjects:
Rhetoric & psychology
Epithets
Waitstaff
Interpersonal relations
Manners & customs
21st century (Literary period)
Southern States
United States
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:An essay is presented on rhetorical strategies used to create relationships between people. It offers the views of a cultural outsider observing waitresses at a Southern United States Waffle House restaurant, where staff often use the epithet "honey" when speaking to customers. The author describes a shift in power where the restaurant staff are in control rather than the customer and the psychological implications, sexual aspects, and relationship defining results of his being called "honey" by the waitstaff.