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T1 Figurative Language and Sensory Perception: Corpus-Based Computer-Assisted Study of the Nature and Motivation of Synesthetic Metaphors in Olive Oil Tasting Notes
A1 Sanz Valdivieso, Lucía
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Corpus linguistics
K1 synesthetic metaphor
K1 olive oil tasting LSP
K1 LSP genre
K1 cognitive linguistics
K1 Lingüística del corpus
K1 metáfora
K1 sinestesia
K1 LFE de la cata de aceite de oliva
K1 género especializado
K1 lingüística cognitiva
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB Meaning in sensory language is often built through figurative mechanisms, such as synesthetic metaphors, where a sensorial domain is used to talk about perceptions from a different sense, as in green[VISION] aroma[SMELL]. The motivation of synesthetic transfers of meaning has been studied in general and literary language, resulting in attempts to establish universals regarding the conceptual preference of the human senses. However, those universals have not been proven in any sensory LSP. The present work uses an LSP corpus of olive oil tasing notes to explore the nature of synesthetic metaphors, test existent models and identify tendencies which may explain this phenomenon in sensory language. The computer-assisted methodology followed consists of identifying semantic discordances and classifying synesthetic expressions in the discourse according to the source and target sensorial domains. Results show the inadequacy of existent models to explain synesthetic behavior in olive oil tasting language. The patterns found are discussed in the light of cognitive constraints and LSP and genre analysis to conclude that a multi-field approach is needed to explain the motivation of synesthetic transfers of meaning.
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52465
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52465
LA spa
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 11-jul-2024