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Sensory linguistics : language, perception and metaphor /
"One of the most fundamental capacities of language is the ability to express what speakers see, hear, feel, taste, and smell. Sensory Linguistics is the interdisciplinary study of how language relates to the senses. This book deals with such foundational questions as: Which semiotic strategies...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2019]
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| Series: | Converging evidence in language and communication research ;
v. 20. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Sensory linguistics : introduction to the book
- The five senses folk model
- Sensory semiotics
- Ineffability
- The embodied lexicon hypothesis
- Synesthesia and metaphor
- Synesthetic metaphors are not metaphorical
- The hierarchy of the senses
- Explaining the hierarchy of the senses
- Methodological foundations
- Norming the senses
- Dominance relations and specialization of sensory words
- Correlations and clusters
- Semantic preferences of sensory words
- Frequency, semantic complexity and iconicity
- The evaluative dimension
- Re-evaluating the hierarchy of the senses.