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"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"--

Language and smell --- Smell --- Terminology

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The paper discusses the neurological basis for olfactory and visual preferences governing human behavior, with the right cerebral hemisphere (RH) playing the dominant role, both in individuals and in types of culture in which olfaction is an important part of the semiosphere. Subjects with RH reactions showed a reliable cross-correlation of biopotentials in the RH when stimulated by odors preferable for them. Classification and verbalization of colors also demonstrates significant differences in the types of strategies used by RH vs. LH subjects. Most professional testers of odors appear to be RH personalities. The important role of cultural, as well as of linguistic, backgrounds is stressed. Right hemispheric sensory processing correlates with adaptation and resistance to stress and somatopsychic diseases.

Language and color --- Language and smell --- Language and color. --- Language and smell. --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Psycholinguistics --- Langage et couleur --- Langage et odorat --- Language and odors --- Odors and language --- Smell and language --- Smell --- Color and language --- Color

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Au fil d’une promenade olfactive à travers la nature, cet ouvrage vous entraîne à la découverte de ses parfums. Comment les perçoit-on ? En quoi diffèrent-ils d’une odeur ? De quoi sont-ils composés ?. Résultat de millions d’années d’évolution, les parfums constituent un véritable langage chimique, qui permet aux plantes comme aux animaux et aux micro-organismes de communiquer avec leur environnement. Grâce à eux, les plantes attirent les pollinisateurs mais sont aussi capables d’alerter, de se défendre, voire de se nourrir. Les stratégies des animaux divergent de celles des plantes : doués de mouvement, ils peuvent s’appuyer sur le langage chimique pour éviter les dangers, trouver le gîte et le couvert ou choisir un partenaire, notamment grâce aux odeurs corporelles. L’homme a, quant à lui, abondamment puisé dans la nature afin de créer des senteurs à des fins rituelles ou esthétiques : en parfumerie, en gastronomie et même pour réaliser des œuvres d’art olfactives. En se concentrant sur l’odorat, peut-être le plus négligé de nos sens, cet ouvrage invite à une immersion olfactive pour humer les parfums de la nature et découvrir le sens profond de cette communication chimique, à laquelle nous participons souvent inconsciemment

Flowers --- Perfumes. --- Smell. --- Language and smell. --- Olfactory sensors. --- Fleurs --- Parfums --- Odeurs --- Perception olfactive. --- Odorat. --- Odor. --- Odeurs. --- Langage. --- Nature.

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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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