Index

• accessibility
  • as explanation of perceptual metaphor106–107
  • intersubjective accessibility81

• adjective-noun pairs175–186, 213–232

• affective priming64

• American Sign Language22–23

• Amis language25, 45–46, 206

• amodal theories of representation51–52

• Andaman islands45

• ATOM, A Theory of Magnitude35

• attention39

• asymmetry
  • between the senses35, 107–108, 112
  • in conceptual metaphor theory81–82, 85–86
  • in perceptual metaphor101–102, 107–108, 112–114

• audiovisual integration180–181

• beer200

• bimodality,see statistical methods

• blindness36–37, 245

• British Sign Language22–23, 193

• circularity114–115, 134, 137, 147–148, 151, 227

• Cha’palaa language45

• Chi-square test,see statistical methods

• cluster analysis,see statistical methods

• codability32

• cognitive linguistics61–62, 75, 79–80, 123, 124–126

• cognitive linguistic commitments124–126

• cognitive reality commitment124–125

• color23, 25–28, 32, 34, 36–40, 44, 48, 89–90, 167–168, 183
  • and synesthesia73–74
  • and synesthetic metaphor100, 110
  • color simulation55
  • gradability of color terms110
  • warm & cool colors85–86

• color blindness36–37

• colored hearing synesthesia67, 74

• common sensible34–36, 100–101, 129, 168

• communicative accuracy32

• communicative need43–46, 109, 116, 195

• composite utterance18

• conceptual conflict69, 86, 92

• conceptual metaphor theory,see metaphor

• conceptual preference principle,see accessibility

• concreteness,see metaphor

• conflict,see conceptual conflict

• continuity of the senses90–91, 187–197

• converging evidence80, 100

• converging evidence commitment124–125

• conveyability32–33

• corpus
  • approaches to inferring sensory modality149–152
  • of Contemporary American English31, 73, 176, 215
  • hapax legomena215–216, 220–221
  • SUBTLEX movie subtitles corpus144, 188–190

• corpus linguistics130–132, 176, 185–186, 241–242

• correlation,see statistical methods

• correspondence argument58–59, 209

• cosine similarity,see statistical methods

• data visualization,see statistical methods

• depiction,see iconicity

• dip test,see statistical methods

• dimension words35–36, 100–101, 129, 168, 216–217

• directionality principle,see accessibility

• distal senses106–107

• double mapping constraint117

• duration35

• emotion simulation64

• emotional valence63, 131, 201–208

• emotional valence norms131, 136

• evaluative language,see emotional valence

• expert language24, 48

• expressivity43, 109
  • principle of33

• frequency
  • token frequency129, 188–190, 217–219
  • type frequency129, 219–220
  • type versus token frequency43, 129, 215

• fuck135, 243

• functional magnetic resonance imagining (fMRI)55–57

• Gaussian mixture models,see statistical methods

• German Sign Language193

• gesture18–19, 21, 23, 26, 35, 80

• gradability110, 117

• grapheme-color synesthesia73–74

• Gǀui language21

• hapax legomena215–216, 220–221

• Hartigan’s dip test,see statistical methods

• hierarchy of the senses
  • by Ullmann99–100
  • by Williams100–101

• iconicity17–23, 29–30, 35–36, 47–48, 241
  • and metaphor111, 117–118, 227–230, 232
  • norms193–195, 227–230

• ideophone21–22, 56, 197

• illusion,see perceptual illusion

• ineffability31–49, 108–109, 115–116, 225–226
  • as an explanation of metaphor108–109, 115–116, 225–226

• indexicality17, 23–25

• inexpressibility hypothesis48

• intensity,see magnitude

• intersubjective accessibility,see accessibility

• Jahai language32, 244

• Japanese language21, 56

• Kernel density plot,see statistical methods

• kiki-bouba effect20–21, 35–36

• kimchi23–24, 28, 30, 31, 33, 38, 54, 244

• Kruskal-Wallis test,see statistical methods

• logistic regression,see statistical methods

• loudness34, 77, 109, 115, 172, 225

• magnitude35, 117

• maluma,see kiki-bouba

• McGurk effect180–181

• mental imagery54

• mental simulation,see perceptual simulation

• metonymy24, 83–84, 86
  • author stands for author's work84
  • down stands for sadness84
  • place stands for institution24, 86
  • metonymical analysis of primary metaphors84
  • taste stands for smell86
  • up stands for more84

• metaphor
  • asymmetry of metaphor,see asymmetry
  • conceptual metaphor theory79–83, 114
  • concreteness81, 85–86
  • childhood is sweet95
  • complex organization is physical structure83
  • danger is sour95
  • displeasure is bitter95
  • displeasure is sour95
  • evil is bitter95
  • happy is up84
  • hearing is sweet95
  • intimacy is closeness83
  • intimacy is warmth80
  • more is bigger83
  • more is up83
  • persistence is remaining erect83
  • primary metaphor29, 62, 82–83, 85–86
  • recovery is sweet95
  • sadness is down,see happy is up
  • size is quantity,see more is bigger
  • smell is taste86
  • social distance is physical distance,see intimacy is closeness
  • sorrow is bitter95
  • sorrow is sour95
  • theories are buildings83

• mixed effects models,see statistical methods

• modality exclusivity143–144, 146–149, 157–160, 162, 243

• modality switch effect58, 62–63

• multilevel models,see statistical methods

• music19–20, 27, 29, 74, 93, 172

• Nasalo language28

• neuroscientific methods,see fMRI

• nociception,see pain

• Ongee culture45

• onomatopoeia19–20, 22, 181, 193

• pain12, 34, 54, 56, 73, 75, 87–89, 109

• Pearson residuals,see statistical methods

• perceptual illusion
  • audiovisual illusion,see McGurk effect
  • ventriloquism41
  • sound-induced flash illusion181

• perceptual simulation53–54
  • evidence for54–58

• permutation test,see statistical methods

• phonological iconicity,see iconicity

• Pirahã language32

• pointing gestures23

• primary metaphor,see metaphor

• principal components analysis (PCA),see statistical methods

• proper sensible34–35

• proximal senses106–107

• nuance trap135

• regression,see statistical methods

• roughness35

• scalar adjectives,see gradability

• scatter plot,see statistical methods

• selective attention,see attention

• selective depiction21

• semantic prosody130–132, 136, 204–206, 209–210

• semiotic diversity18

• sex200–201

• signed languages22–23, 117

• Siwu language21

• space55, 62, 168, 173

• spatial dimensions,see dimension words

• somatosenses,see touch

• sound symbolism,see iconicity

• source-based language23–26, 29–30, 33–34, 48

• statistical methods
  • bimodality154–157
  • Chi-square test155
  • cluster analysis166–173
  • correlation147, 150, 182–184, 209
  • cosine similarity148, 176–179, 228–230
  • Gaussian mixture models167
  • Hartigan's dip test156–157
  • Kernel density plot144, 156, 159, 160, 178
  • Kruskal-Wallis test160
  • logistic regression227–228
  • mixed effects models229–230
  • Pearson residuals155, 219–221
  • permutation test158–161
  • principal components analysis (PCA)164–166

• scatter plot166
  • variable coordinate plot165
  • Wilcoxon rank sum test145, 154, 158, 178, 195, 223

• Symbol Interdependency Theory62–63

• tactile disadvantage,see touch

• takete,see kiki-bouba

• technical language26–28

• temperature23, 80–81, 87, 110, 169–170
  • of colors85–86

• Thumper (video game)19–20

• time,see duration

• touch
  • somatosenses14–15
  • tactile disadvantage59
  • versus vision35

• unidirectionality,see asymmetry

• variable coordinate plot,see statistical methods

• ventriloquist effect41

• visual dominance40–46, 153–157, 161–162, 188–190

• visual impairment,see blindness

• Wilcoxon rank sum test,see statistical methods

• wine25, 27, 28, 41, 93

• WordNet190–192

• Yélî Dnye language25