Perception metaphors / edited by Laura J. Speed, Carolyn O'Meara, Lila San Roque, Asifa Majid.

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Other Authors: Speed, Laura J. (Editor), O'Meara, Carolyn (Editor), San Roque, Lila (Editor), Majid, Asifa (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Series:Converging evidence in language and communication research ; v. 19.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Perception Metaphors; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Perception metaphors: A view from diversity; 1. Metaphor and perception; 2. Perception metaphor and directionality; 3. Perception metaphor and diversity; 4. Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 2. Words of sense; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 3. Perception metaphors in cognitive linguistics: Scope, motivation, and lexicalisation; 1. Perception metaphors ahoy!; 2. Some notes on how to deal with conceptual metaphors in cognitive linguistics
  • 3. The scope of perception metaphors4. The motivation of perception metaphors; 5. The lexicalisation of perception metaphors; 6. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 4. Perception metaphor in English: A bird's-eye view; 1. Introduction; 2. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus; 2.1 Methods; 2.2 Getting to grips with the data; 2.3 The Metaphor Map; 3. Perception metaphor; 3.1 Overview of perception categories; 3.2 A comparison: Overview of emotion categories; 3.3 Touch: Metaphor over time; 3.4 Smell: Categories and domains; 3.5 Taste: Senses as source and target
  • 4. ConclusionAcknowledgements; References; Chapter 5. Metaphors and perception in the lexicon: A diachronic perspective; 1. Introduction; 2. Our data; 3. Annotation; 4. Results; 4.1 Changes in the primary sense; 4.2 Intrafield changes (and persistence); 4.3 Transfield changes (and persistence); 5. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Dictionaries and corpora; Appendix A. Latin sensory adjectives; Chapter 6. Synaesthetic metaphors are neither synaesthetic nor metaphorical; 1. Introduction; 2. Background on synaesthetic metaphors; 3. Beware of synaesthesia; 4. Beyond synaesthesia
  • 5. Alternative analyses: Primary metaphors and metonymy6. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 7. Sensory experiences, meaning and metaphor: The case of wine; 1. Introduction; 2. Describing wine through metaphor; 3. Sensing wine: Cross-sensory metaphors; 4. Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 8. Taste Metaphors in Hieroglyphic Egyptian; 1. Introduction; 2. Particularities of the Ancient Egyptian language and script; 3. Methodological background: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Property Selection Processes; 4. The sensory modality of taste in Egyptian
  • 4.1 The verb ṭp4.2 Prototypical and physical meanings; 4.3 Emotional meanings; 4.4 Cognitive meanings; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of examples; References; Chapter 9. Why do we understand music as moving?: The metaphorical basis of musical motion revisited; 1. Introduction; 2. Musical motion and Conceptual Metaphor Theory; 2.1 The enigma of musical motion; 2.2 A potential answer to the enigma of musical motion: Conceptual Metaphor Theory; 3. Method; 4. Results; 5. Musical motion as fictive motion; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References