Introduction to the volume

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction to the volume 1
6. Section I. Overview
7. Chapter 1. The language of food in Japanese through a linguistic lens 27
8. Section II. Mimetics and sound-symbolism in food names and food descriptions
9. Chapter 2. Analysis of the use of Japanese mimetics in the eating and imagined eating of rice crackers 55
10. Chapter 3. The sound-symbolic effects of consonants on food texture 79
11. Chapter 4. Innovative binomial adjectives in Japanese food descriptions and beyond 111
12. Section III. Change in the language of food
13. Chapter 5. Verbs of eating 135
14. Chapter 6. Naturalization of the Japanese loanword sushi in English 161
15. Section IV. Taste terms
16. Chapter 7. Clear is sweet 191
17. Chapter 8. A frame-semantic approach to Japanese taste terms 231
18. Section V. Motion and force in the language of food
19. Chapter 9. Verbs of seasoning in Japanese, with special reference to the locative alternation in English 263
20. Chapter 10. Motion expressions in Japanese wine-tasting descriptions 293
21. Chapter 11. Applying force dynamics to analyze taste descriptions in Japanese online columns 319
22. Index 345