Essays about: "sensory linguistics"

Found 1 essay containing the words sensory linguistics.

  1. 1. The language of vision in four Aslian speech communities : an introductory investigation of basic vision verbs

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för lingvistik och kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Sonja Holmer; [2021]
    Keywords : language of vision; hierarchy of the senses; sensory linguistics; universal perception; language of perception; Aslian languages; Jahai; Ceq Wong; Semelai; Semaq Beri; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Vision is often considered to top the hierarchy of the senses, reflected for example in the high relative frequency of vision verbs, in comparison to other perception verbs. Results from some previous studies, however, have shown that there is greater cross-linguistic variation concerning perception language than previously thought, emphasising other sense modalities than vision. READ MORE