Figurative Language and Sensory Perception: Corpus-Based Computer-Assisted Study of the Nature and Motivation of Synesthetic Metaphors in Olive Oil Tasting Notes
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...
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| Tipo de documento: | dissertação |
| Data de publicação: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Valladolid |
| Repositório: | UVaDOC. Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Valladolid |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:uvadoc.uva.es:10324/52465 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/52465 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Corpus linguistics synesthetic metaphor olive oil tasting LSP LSP genre cognitive linguistics Lingüística del corpus metáfora sinestesia LFE de la cata de aceite de oliva género especializado lingüística cognitiva 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas |
| Resumo: | 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. |
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