Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. 1. Speaking of colors and odors 1
4. 2. Color smell, and language: The semiotic nature of perception and language 19
5. 3. How can language cope with color? Functional aspects of the nervous system 35
6. 4. Color perception, color description and metaphor 61
7. 5. Attractiveness and adornment 85
8. 6. Color terms between elegance and beauty. The verbalization of color with textiles and cosmetics 113
9. 7. Color names and dynamic imagery 129
10. 8. From blue stockings to blue movies: Color metonymies in English 141
11. 9. Odor memory 155
12. 10. From psychophysics to semiophysics 167
13. 11. Cognition, olfaction and linguistic creativity: Linguistic synesthesia as poetic device in cologne advertisement 185
14. 12. Understanding synesthetic expressions 203
15. 13. Olfactory and visual processing and verbalization 227
16. Contributors 239
17. Index 241