Russian Linguistic Bulletin (Apr 2022)
CONCEPTUALISATION OF TASTE IN THE CONTEXT OF COGNITIVE RESEARCH: POLYMODALITY, INTERMODALITY, SYNAESTHESIA
Abstract
A fundamental postulate in linguistic science is that language divides the world in its own way, i.e. it possesses a particularway of being conceptualized. Metaphorical and metonymic transpositions are the main forms of conceptualization, which areanalyzed as cognitive mechanisms at the basis of the sensory cognition. The article deals with the taste sensesconceptualization on the basis of analysis taste by means of which the object features are described with the account ofmetaphorical and metonymic transpositions. The language is an ideal instrument of organizing reality, it defines its concretecontours through conceptualization. Due to the existence of an inseparable connection between a person (the cognitiveexperience bearer) and the language verbalization, the traditional framework of linguistic research has been expanded. Thepresented research paper is a study of lexical semantics, implemented in the framework of the cognitive approach, and isdevoted to the conceptualization analysis of taste sensations and gustatory perception. By describing the semantics, it ispossible to have access to the conceptualization of gustatory sensations valuation in human consciousness. An important aspectin the taste conceptualization is the fixation of the perception type, since information about taste features is perceived audiblyand visually, and can also come through olfactory, tactile sensory channels. The purpose is to reveal cognitive bases of tastesensations conceptualization and verbalization (phenomena of polymodality, intermodality (synaesthesia). Object of study -cognitive-semantic mechanisms and ways of reality fragments conceptualization, which form the gustatory sensationsvisualization process. The further research may include the study of semantics of similar groups, but not identical meaning,denoting perceptual taste modus in order to identify common and differential features, as well as analysis of mechanisms oftaste sensation conceptualization in different discourse types.
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