The linguistics of olfaction / edited by Lukasz Jedrzejowski, Przemyslaw Staniewski.
"This volume presents novel cross-linguistic insights into how olfactory experiences are expressed in typologically (un-)related languages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic and fourteen chapters based on philological invest...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2021.
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| Series: | Typological studies in language
volume 131. |
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "This volume presents novel cross-linguistic insights into how olfactory experiences are expressed in typologically (un-)related languages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic and fourteen chapters based on philological investigation and thorough fieldwork data from Basque, Beja, Fon, Formosan languages, Hebrew, Indo-European languages, Japanese, Kartvelian languages, Purepecha, and languages of northern Vanuatu. Topics discussed in the individual chapters involve, inter alia, lexical olfactory repertoires and naming strategies, non-literal meanings of olfactory expressions and their semantic change, reduplication, colexification, mimetics, and language contact. The findings provide the reader with a range of fascinating facts about perception description, contribute to a deeper understanding of how olfaction as an understudied sense is encoded linguistically, and offer new theoretical perspectives on how some parts of our cognitive system are verbalized cross-culturally. This volume is highly relevant to lexical typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anthropologists"-- |
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| Item Description: | Selected papers from the workshop, "Towards a Typology of Olfactory Expressions", convened and organized by the volume editors, Łukasz Jędrzejowski and Przemysław Staniewski, at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea at Naples, 31 August-3 September, 2016. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9027260176 9789027260178 |
| ISSN: | 0167-7373 ; |