Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. Chapter 1. Sensory linguistics 1
5. Part I. Theory
6. Chapter 2. The five senses folk model 11
7. Chapter 3. Sensory semiotics 17
8. Chapter 4. Ineffability 31
9. Chapter 5. The Embodied Lexicon Hypothesis 51
10. Chapter 6. Synesthesia and metaphor 67
11. Chapter 7. Synesthetic metaphors are not metaphorical 79
12. Chapter 8. The hierarchy of the senses 99
13. Chapter 9. Explaining the hierarchy of the senses 105
14. Part II. A case study of sensory adjectives
15. Chapter 10. Methodological foundations 123
16. Chapter 11. Norming the senses 141
17. Chapter 12. Dominance relations and specialization of sensory words 153
18. Chapter 13. Correlations and clusters 163
19. Chapter 14. Semantic preferences of sensory words 175
20. Chapter 15. Frequency, semantic complexity, and iconicity 187
21. Chapter 16. The evaluative dimension 199
22. Chapter 17. Re-evaluating the hierarchy of the senses 213
23. Part III. Conclusion
24. Chapter 18. Conclusion 235
25. References 249
26. Index 287