Ádám Galac
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ádám Galac plays a role.
Articles
2024 Bold colors, sweeping melodies, offensive smells: A corpus-based analysis of the figurative representations of visual, auditory, and olfactory stimuli in English and Hungarian International Journal of Language and Culture 11:1, pp. 58–94 | Article
This paper presents a corpus-based exploratory study of the figurative conceptualizations of visual, auditory, and olfactory stimuli in English and Hungarian. Through a manual semantic analysis of altogether 6,800 occurrences of 18 sensory nouns (three per sensory modality in each language) in… read more
2023 Paths of linguistic synesthesia across cultures: A lexical analysis of conventionalized cross‑sensory meaning extensions in Europe and Central Asia Perception, Culture and Language, Baranyiné Kóczy, Judit and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 450–479 | Article
The article focuses on the conventionalized cross-sensory uses of basic-level adjectives in a sample of eight languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Tajik, and Uzbek. After a differentiation of cross-sensory language use (also called linguistic synesthesia) from other… read more