33.311, Books: Tastes We Live By: Bagli

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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 09:00:42
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: Tastes We Live By: Bagli

 


Title: Tastes We Live By 
Subtitle: The Linguistic Conceptualisation of Taste in English 
Series Title: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110630404/html 


Author: Marco Bagli

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110630404 Pages: 235 Price: U.S. $ 114.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110626773 Pages: 235 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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