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Color Language and Color Categorization
This volume represents a unique collection of chapters on the way in which color is categorized and named in a number of languages. Although color research has been a topic of focus for researchers for decades, the contributions here show that many aspects of color language and categorization are as yet unexplored, and that current theories and methodologies which investigate color language are still evolving. Some core questions addressed here include: How is color conceptualized through language? What kind of linguistic tools do languages use to describe color? Which factors tend to bias color language? What methodologies could be used to understand human color categorization and language ...
Sensory Perceptions in Language, Embodiment and Epistemology
The book illustrates how the human ability to adapt to the environment and interact with it can explain our linguistic representation of the world as constrained by our bodies and sensory perception. The different chapters discuss philosophical, scientific, and linguistic perspectives on embodiment and body perception, highlighting the core mechanisms humans employ to acquire knowledge of reality. These processes are based on sensory experience and interaction through communication.
Tastes We Live By
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 Studies has been sparkling new interest and new perspectives on the importance of this sense. Merging anthropology, evolutionary physiology and philosophy, this book investigates the language of Taste in English, and its relationship with our embodied minds. In the first part of the book, the author explores the semantic dimensions of Taste terms with a usage-based approach. With the application of experimental protocols, Bagli enquires their possible organization in a radial network and calculates the Salience in...
Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius
Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius is a forensic examination of two of the most famous letters from the ancient Mediterranean world: Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae 6.16 and 6.20, which offer a contemporary account of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. These letters, sent to the historian Tacitus, provide accounts by Pliny the Younger about what happened when Mt Vesuvius exploded, destroying the surrounding towns and countryside, including Pompeii and Herculaneum, and killing his uncle, Pliny the Elder. This volume provides the first comprehensive full-length treatment of these documents, contextualized by evidence-rich biographies for both Plinys, and a synthesis of the latest archaeologica...
The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English
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 r...
Non fiori ma opere di bene
La protagonista di questo romanzo si chiama Elisa Fuksas, come l’autrice, ed è Elisa Fuksas, almeno nelle intenzioni e nei desideri. Soprattutto nella ricerca. Tre anni or sono, Elisa era in piedi, la notte di Pasqua, nel battistero di Firenze, aveva trentasette anni e, dopo un periodo di avvicinamento e studio della religione cattolica, aveva deciso di battezzarsi, sollevando un coro di santità ed eccezioni, dalla famiglia, al confessore, al vescovo, fino a lei stessa e ai passanti. Ma in fondo sono le incertezze e le certezze che rendono umani, l’accesso a un’eternità a venire. Alla santità , anche, perché no. Non fiori ma opere di bene, a metà tra videogioco e romanzo cavallere...
Silah Adası
Bundook. Silah. Sıradan bir kelime, ta ki Deen Datta’nın dünyasını altüst edene kadar... Nadir kitaplarla uÄŸraÅŸan bir sahaf olarak Brooklyn’de münzevi hayatı süren Deen, dünyaya sarsılmaz bir rasyonellikle bakmaktadır, fakat çocuk yaÅŸtan aÅŸina olduÄŸu bir Bengal efsanesi onu tesadüf eseri tekrar bulunca, inandığı her ÅŸeyi sorgulayacağı sıra dışı bir yolculuÄŸa çıkmak zorunda kalır. Bengal’deki eski bir tapınaktan Los Angeles’a ve Venedik’e kadar kadim bir mitin izini sürdüğü bu serüven, yol boyunca karşılaÅŸtığı kiÅŸilerin anıları ve tecrübeleriyle ÅŸekillenir: Bu yolculuÄŸun baÅŸlamasına aracılık eden Piya; Deen’in gözlerini günÃ...
John Fletcher's Rome
John Fletcher’s Rome is the first book to explore John Fletcher’s engagement with classical antiquity. Like Shakespeare and Jonson, Fletcher wrote, alone or in collaboration, a number of Roman plays: Bonduca, Valentinian, The False One and The Prophetess. Unlike Shakespeare’s or Jonson’s, however, Fletcher’s Roman plays have seldom been the subject of critical discussion. Domenico Lovascio’s ground-breaking study examines these plays as a group for the first time, thus identifying disorientation as the unifying principle of Fletcher’s portrayal of imperial Rome. John Fletcher’s Rome argues that Fletcher’s dramatization of ancient Rome exudes a sense of detachment and scepticism as to the authority of Roman models resulting from his irreverent approach to the classics. The book sheds new light on Fletcher’s intellectual life, his vision of history, and the interconnections between these plays and the rest of his canon.
Authentic Sicily
When her stepfather dies, Lois Cayley finds herself alone in the world with only twopence in her pocket. Undaunted, the intelligent, attractive, and infinitely resourceful young woman decides to set off in search of adventure. Her travels take he...
