Abstract: Tasting descriptors, which are common terms used to describe a food product, play a significant role in tasting discourse and particularly in tasting notes. Although they have been the subject of a number of studies from different perspectives, none of them, that we know of, describe and classify descriptors according to their form, function and combination in tasting notes in English. In this paper, we examine a corpus of tasting notes with the aim of 1. determining the position of English descriptors in relation to the keywords designating the tasting process; 2. scoping the depth of description, as indicated by the number of descriptors; 3. identifying if the descriptors are specific to a given aspect of the food product or are generic enough as to be used to describe different aspects of it.; and 4. categorizing frequent semantic associative processes among descriptors and keywords. Our results will be a valuable resource for professionals, technical writers and students’ tasters in English.
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