The linguistics of olfaction : typological and diachronic approaches to synchronic diversity / Łukasz Jędrzejowski

• Autore: Jędrzejowski Łukasz
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, : John Benjamins, 2021; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (498 pages)
• Disciplina: 418
• Soggetto topico: Language and smell; Smell - Terminology
• Altri autori: StaniewskiPrzemysław
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Linguistics of olfaction
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910794673703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Typological Studies in Language