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Sound symbolism is the study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning. In this interdisciplinary collection of new studies, twenty-four leading scholars discuss the role of sound symbolism in a theory of language. They consider sound symbolic processes in a wide range of languages from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South America. Beginning with an evocative typology of sound symbolic processes, they go on to examine not only the well-known areas of study, such as onomatopoeia and size sound symbolism, but also less frequently discussed topics such as the sound symbolic value of vocatives and of involuntary noises, and the marginal areas of 'conventional sound symbolism', such as phonesthemes. The book concludes with a series of studies on the biological basis of sound symbolism, and draws comparisons with the communication systems of other species. This is a definitive work on the role of sound symbolism in a theory of language.

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"An accessible, concise primer on the neurological trait of synesthesia-vividly felt sensory couplings-by a founder of the field. One in twenty-three people carry the genes for the synesthesia. Not a disorder but a neurological trait, like perfect pitch, synesthesia creates vividly felt cross-sensory couplings. A synesthete might hear a voice and at the same time see it as a color or shape, taste its distinctive flavor, or feel it as a physical touch. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Richard Cytowic, the expert who returned synesthesia to mainstream science after decades of oblivion, offers a concise, accessible primer on this fascinating human experience. Cytowic explains that synesthesia's most frequent manifestation is seeing days of the week as colored, followed by sensing letters, numerals, and punctuation marks in different hues even when printed in black. Other manifestations include tasting food in shapes, seeing music in moving colors, and mapping numbers and other sequences spatially. One synesthete declares, "Chocolate smells pink and sparkly"; another invents a dish (chicken, vanilla ice cream, and orange juice concentrate) that tastes intensely blue. Cytowic, who in the 1980s revived scientific interest in synesthesia, sees it now understood as a spectrum, an umbrella term that covers five clusters of outwardly felt couplings that can occur via several pathways. Yet synesthetic or not, each brain uniquely filters what it perceives. Cytowic reminds us that each individual's perspective on the world is thoroughly subjective." -- Publisher's website

Cognitive psychology --- Physiology of nerves and sense organs --- synesthesia --- Synesthesia --- Perceptual disorders --- Perceptual Disorders --- Perceptual Distortion --- Hemisensory Neglect --- Sensory Neglect --- Somatosensory Discrimination Disorder --- Hemispatial Neglect --- Discrimination Disorder, Somatosensory --- Discrimination Disorders, Somatosensory --- Hemisensory Neglects --- Hemispatial Neglects --- Neglect, Hemisensory --- Neglect, Hemispatial --- Neglect, Sensory --- Neglects, Hemisensory --- Perceptual Disorder --- Sensory Neglects --- Somatosensory Discrimination Disorders --- Disabilities --- Nervous system --- Psychology, Pathological --- Disorders of perception --- Perception, Disorders of --- Perception disorders --- Perceptual disturbances --- Perceptual dysfunction --- Intersensory effects --- Psychology --- Senses and sensation --- Color-hearing --- Sound symbolism --- Synaesthesia --- Diseases

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In The Senses of Democracy, Francine R. Masiello traces a history of perceptions expressed in literature, the visual arts, politics, and history from the start of the nineteenth century to the present day. A wide transnational landscape frames the book along with an original and provocative thesis: when the discourse on democracy is altered—when nations fall into crisis or the increased weight of modernity tests minds and nerves—the representation of our sensing bodies plays a crucial role in explaining order and rebellion, cultural innovation, and social change. Taking a wide arc of materials—periodicals, memoirs, political proclamations, and travel logs, along with art installations and fiction—and focusing on the technologies that supplement and enhance human perception, Masiello looks at the evolution of what she calls “sense work” in cultural texts, mainly from Latin America, that wend from the heights of romantic thought to the startling innovations of modernism in the early twentieth century and then to times of posthuman experience when cyber bodies hurtle through globalized space and human senses are reproduced by machines. Tracing the shifting debates on perceptions, The Senses of Democracy offers a new paradigm with which to speak of Latin American cultural history and launches a field for the comparative study of bodies, experience, pleasure, and pain over the continental divide. In the end, sense work helps us to understand how culture finds its location.

Sociology of literature --- Spanish-American literature --- Sociology of culture --- Latin America --- 15.85 history of America. --- Democracy in literature. --- Democracy --- Democracy. --- Literature and society --- Literature and society. --- Literature. --- Politics and culture --- Politics and culture. --- Senses and sensation --- Social change --- Social change. --- Synesthesia --- Social aspects. --- Latin America. --- Literatures --- History and criticism. --- Democracy in literature --- Culture --- Culture and politics --- Synaesthesia --- Intersensory effects --- Psychology --- Color-hearing --- Sound symbolism --- Sensation --- Sensory biology --- Sensory systems --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Neurophysiology --- Psychophysiology --- Perception --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America --- Latin American literature