The Lexical Field of Taste

Backhouse, in this book, undertakes a semantic study of taste terms in modern spoken Japanese.

List of contents

Preface; 1. Taste and terms; 2. Lexical meaning; 3. Methodology; 4. Evaluative taste terms in Japanese; 5. Descriptive taste terms in Japanese (I); 6. Descriptive taste terms in Japanese (II); 7. Retrospect and prospects; Appendix; Notes; References; Index.

Summary

A semantic study of taste terms in modern spoken Japanese, exploring important semantic issues, such as the relationship between evaluative and descriptive meaning, and the intralinguistic mechanisms at work in metaphor.

Product details

• Authors: A. E. Backhouse
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521445351
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44535-1
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 502 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguisti; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics