36.2511, Books: Linguistic Synesthesia: Winter and Strik-Lievers (2025)

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Subject: 36.2511, Books: Linguistic Synesthesia: Winter and Strik-Lievers (2025)

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Date: 26-Aug-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Linguistic Synesthesia: Winter and Strik-Lievers (2025)


Title: Linguistic Synesthesia
Subtitle: A Meta-analysis
Series Title: Elements in Cognitive Linguistics
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/cognitive-linguistics/linguistic-synesthesia-meta-analysis?format=PB&isbn=9781009519144

Author(s): Bodo Winter and Francesca Strik-Lievers

Hardback ISBN:  9781009519168 Pages:  84 Price: U.K. £ 49.99
Hardback ISBN:  9781009519168 Pages:  84 Price: Europe EURO 58.34
Hardback ISBN:  9781009519168 Pages:  84 Price: U.S. $ 64.99

Abstract:

Linguistic synesthesias combine different senses, as in English smooth
melody (touch→sound). For nearly a century, researchers have gathered
data that has been interpreted as supporting the notion of a
hierarchical ordering of the senses. According to this proposal,
expressions map the presumed-to-be 'lower' senses of touch, taste, and
smell onto the presumed-to-be 'higher' senses of sound and sight.
Here, this proposal is tested in the first-ever meta-analysis of
linguistic synesthesias, combining thirty-eight datasets from fourteen
different languages. The authors demonstrate that clear patterns
emerge from the data, but many such patterns are inconsistent with the
notion of a linear hierarchical order or a simple lower/higher divide
of the senses. This calls for a shift in what theories are considered
to be viable for explaining asymmetries between the senses in
linguistic synesthesia.

Written In: English (eng)



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