Humans live in a perceptual world. All of humanity's accomplishments, from agriculture to
space travel, depend on us being able to interact with the world through seeing, feeling …

It is usually taken for granted that synaesthesia (eg, sweet voice) is a metaphor. However,
the fact that partly different interpretations have also been proposed suggests that further …

essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of
perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing …

Speakers often use metaphor when talking about the contents of perception. For example, a
word such as sweet can be used to talk metaphorically about sensory impressions that are …

Taste is considered one of the lowest sensory modalities, and the most difficult to express in
language. Recently, an increasing body of research in perception language and in Food …

In this paper, we combine analytical tools of conceptual metaphor theory with the
affordances of corpus-based linguistics and quantitative analysis to investigate the …

This paper proposes a corpus-based approach to synaesthesia in Chinese and
demonstrates its significant linguistic values by taking into consideration Chinese …

Abstract Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) departed from tradition in metaphor studies by
treating this phenomenon as an ordinary one used in everyday reasoning. From its …

Celem podjętych w artykule rozważań jest zaprezentowanie mechanizmu funkcjonowania
metafor synestezyjnych określających zapach we współczesnym języku rosyjskim na …

The article focuses on the conventionalized cross-sensory uses of basic-level adjectives in a
sample of eight languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Tajik …