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Sensory Linguistics: Language, perception and metaphorBodo Winter
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 20] 2019
► pp. 105–119
Bodo Winter
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 20] 2019
► pp. 105–119
Chapter 9Explaining the hierarchy of the senses
Article outline
- 9.1A multicausal approach
- 9.2Overview of explanatory accounts
- 9.2.1Perceptual accounts
- 9.2.2Lexical composition and ineffability
- 9.2.3Evaluation
- 9.2.4Gradability
- 9.2.5Iconicity
- 9.2.6Idiosyncratic explanations
- 9.3Evaluating the different explanatory accounts
- 9.3.1Evaluating perceptual accounts
- 9.3.2Evaluating ineffability-based accounts
- 9.3.3Evaluating evaluation-based accounts
- 9.3.4Evaluating gradability-based accounts
- 9.3.5Evaluating iconicity-based accounts
- 9.3.6Evaluating idiosyncratic explanations
- 9.4The multivariate road ahead
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