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Tastes We Live By : The Linguistic Conceptualisation of Taste in English / Marco Bagli.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; 50Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (XVIII, 217 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110626773
  • 9783110626865
  • 9783110630404
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415 23
LOC classification:
  • P165 .B34 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and theoretical tenets -- 2 Taste -- 3 The words of taste -- 4 The semantic domain of TASTE in English -- 5 The multisensory lexicon of taste -- 6 Categorisation patterns -- 7 The taste of words -- 8 The taste of words today -- 9 Intrafield metaphors -- 10 Conclusions -- References -- Index
Summary: Taste is considered one of the lowest sensory modalities, and the most difficult to express in language. Recently, an increasing body of research in perception language and in Food Studies has been sparkling new interest and new perspectives on the importance of this sense. Merging anthropology, evolutionary physiology and philosophy, this book investigates the language of Taste in English, and its relationship with our embodied minds. In the first part of the book, the author explores the semantic dimensions of Taste terms with a usage-based approach. With the application of experimental protocols, Bagli enquires their possible organization in a radial network and calculates the Salience index of gustatory terms in both American and British English. The second part of the book is an overview of the metaphorical extensions that motivate the polysemy of Taste terms, with the aid of corpus analysis methods and various texts. This book is the first to review systematically and in a usage-based perspective the role of the sensory domain of Taste in English, showing a more complicated picture and suggesting that its under-representation and difficulty of encoding does not correspond to lack of importance.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and theoretical tenets -- 2 Taste -- 3 The words of taste -- 4 The semantic domain of TASTE in English -- 5 The multisensory lexicon of taste -- 6 Categorisation patterns -- 7 The taste of words -- 8 The taste of words today -- 9 Intrafield metaphors -- 10 Conclusions -- References -- Index

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Taste is considered one of the lowest sensory modalities, and the most difficult to express in language. Recently, an increasing body of research in perception language and in Food Studies has been sparkling new interest and new perspectives on the importance of this sense. Merging anthropology, evolutionary physiology and philosophy, this book investigates the language of Taste in English, and its relationship with our embodied minds. In the first part of the book, the author explores the semantic dimensions of Taste terms with a usage-based approach. With the application of experimental protocols, Bagli enquires their possible organization in a radial network and calculates the Salience index of gustatory terms in both American and British English. The second part of the book is an overview of the metaphorical extensions that motivate the polysemy of Taste terms, with the aid of corpus analysis methods and various texts. This book is the first to review systematically and in a usage-based perspective the role of the sensory domain of Taste in English, showing a more complicated picture and suggesting that its under-representation and difficulty of encoding does not correspond to lack of importance.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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