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The last decades have witnessed a renewed interest in near-synonymy. In particular, recent distributional corpus-based approaches used for semantic analysis have successfully uncovered subtle distinctions in meaning between near-synonyms. However, most studies have dealt with the semantic structure of sets of near-synonyms from a synchronic perspective, while their diachronic evolution generally has been neglected. Against this backdrop, the aim of this book is to examine five adjectival near-synonyms in the history of American English from the understudied semantic domain of SMELL: fragrant, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, and sweet-smelling. Their distribution is analyzed across a wide range of contexts, including semantic, morphosyntactic, and stylistic ones, since distributional patterns of this type serve as a proxy for semantic (dis)similarity. The data is submitted to various univariate and multivariate statistical techniques, making it possible to uncover fine-grained (dis)similarities among the near-synonyms, as well as possible changes in their prototypical structures. The book sheds valuable light on the diachronic development of lexical near-synonyms, a dimension that has up to now been relatively disregarded.
English language --- Language and smell --- Germanic languages --- Language and odors --- Odors and language --- Smell and language --- Smell --- Variation
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English language --- Language and smell. --- Language and odors --- Odors and language --- Smell and language --- Smell --- Grammar. --- Analysis and parsing --- Diagraming --- Composition and exercises --- Germanic languages
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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 --- Olfaction --- Chemical senses --- Senses and sensation --- Nose --- Language and odors --- Odors and language --- Smell and language --- Terminology --- E-books
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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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