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Tastes We Live By - The Linguistic Conceptualisation of Taste in English (Hardcover)
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Tastes We Live By - The Linguistic Conceptualisation of Taste in English (Hardcover)
Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL]
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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.
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