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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2010
      September 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511554322
      9780521445351
      9780521023221
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511554322
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.461kg, 212 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.322kg, 212 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Asian Studies, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Asian Studies, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
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    Dr Backhouse undertakes a semantic study of taste terms in modern spoken Japanese. Through an investigation of the range of vocabulary available for the description of taste qualities, and their interrelationship in terms of meaning, Dr Backhouse presents a sensitive elucidation of the structure of Japanese taste terms, which has significant implications for anthropological linguistics. He explores important semantic issues, such as the relationship between evaluative and descriptive meaning, the intralinguistic mechanisms at work in metaphor, and draws illuminating connections between the lexical field of colour and that of taste.

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    "...a useful addition to the small number of full-length studies of the vocabulary of taste." Joel Kuipers, Anthropological Linguistics

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