Sensory Adjectives in the Discourse of Food: A Frame-Semantic Approach to Language and Perception

by Catherine Diederich

Sensory Adjectives in the Discourse of Food presents a frame-based analysis of sensory descriptors. This book investigates the identification and usefulness of conceptual frames in three respects: First, an analysis of scientific language use shows that a semantic interpretation of the adjectives is dependent on the operationalizations performed in the field of sensory science. Second, a systematic frame semantic analysis of the descriptors sheds...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 902723907X
• ISBN13: 9789027239075
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.