Chapter 7. Sensory experiences, meaning and metaphor
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Rosario Caballero
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of metaphorical language used to communicate sensory experiences in the context of wine discourse, particularly in the tasting note genre where metaphor provides wine critics with the means to describe what wines feel like in the nose and mouth. Using data from a corpus of tasting notes written in English (2,053 texts and 100,674 words), it examines the language used in the description of wines’ aromas, flavours and mouthfeel in order to better understand the contribution of metaphor in the transfer of the olfactory, gustatory and tactile experiences to readers. The main concern is to explore expressions that cut across sensory modalities, i.e., instantiate synaesthetic metaphor, and point to the possibility of the synaesthetic motivation of a good amount of the language presumably informed by metaphors of the conceptual type.
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of metaphorical language used to communicate sensory experiences in the context of wine discourse, particularly in the tasting note genre where metaphor provides wine critics with the means to describe what wines feel like in the nose and mouth. Using data from a corpus of tasting notes written in English (2,053 texts and 100,674 words), it examines the language used in the description of wines’ aromas, flavours and mouthfeel in order to better understand the contribution of metaphor in the transfer of the olfactory, gustatory and tactile experiences to readers. The main concern is to explore expressions that cut across sensory modalities, i.e., instantiate synaesthetic metaphor, and point to the possibility of the synaesthetic motivation of a good amount of the language presumably informed by metaphors of the conceptual type.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Chapter 1. Perception metaphors 1
- Chapter 2. Words of sense 17
- Chapter 3. Perception metaphors in cognitive linguistics 43
- Chapter 4. Perception metaphor in English 65
- Chapter 5. Metaphors and perception in the lexicon 85
- Chapter 6. Synaesthetic metaphors are neither synaesthetic nor metaphorical 105
- Chapter 7. Sensory experiences, meaning and metaphor 127
- Chapter 8. Taste metaphors in Hieroglyphic Egyptian 145
- Chapter 9. Why do we understand music as moving? 165
- Chapter 10. Approaching perceptual qualities 185
- Chapter 11. Grounding mental metaphors in touch 209
- Chapter 12. Polysemy of the Estonian perception verb nägema ‘to see’ 231
- Chapter 13. Evidential vindication in next turn 253
- Chapter 14. Sensory perception metaphors in sign languages 275
- Chapter 15. Metaphors of perception in Japanese Sign Language 303
- Chapter 16. Perception and metaphor 327
- Chapter 17. Perception verbs in context 347
- List of metaphors 369
- Index 373
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Chapter 1. Perception metaphors 1
- Chapter 2. Words of sense 17
- Chapter 3. Perception metaphors in cognitive linguistics 43
- Chapter 4. Perception metaphor in English 65
- Chapter 5. Metaphors and perception in the lexicon 85
- Chapter 6. Synaesthetic metaphors are neither synaesthetic nor metaphorical 105
- Chapter 7. Sensory experiences, meaning and metaphor 127
- Chapter 8. Taste metaphors in Hieroglyphic Egyptian 145
- Chapter 9. Why do we understand music as moving? 165
- Chapter 10. Approaching perceptual qualities 185
- Chapter 11. Grounding mental metaphors in touch 209
- Chapter 12. Polysemy of the Estonian perception verb nägema ‘to see’ 231
- Chapter 13. Evidential vindication in next turn 253
- Chapter 14. Sensory perception metaphors in sign languages 275
- Chapter 15. Metaphors of perception in Japanese Sign Language 303
- Chapter 16. Perception and metaphor 327
- Chapter 17. Perception verbs in context 347
- List of metaphors 369
- Index 373
