The research in olfaction presented here was first developed within the paradigm elaborated by Rosch and Lloyd (1978) in psychology and by Berlin and Kay (1969) in linguistic anthropology. This research was decisive in our theoretical evolution1 and in the development of alternative concepts and… read more
This chapter follows vision, audition and olfaction in part because this reflects the chronological order in which these topics were addressed within our research group. Taste, more than the other senses, prevents us from exclusively relying on the analytical distinction of the five senses… read more
This chapter enters into dialogue with its counterpart, Chapter 1, pointing to advances from the classical cognitivist position to a situated approach to cognition. We develop upon the consequences of this shift towards sensory experiences presented in Chapters 2 to 8. This chapter can also be… read more
Given the double nature of experiencing food as individual as well as shared experience and knowledge, the question is how to connect the observed variability of expressing such a sensory experience with a normalized requirement for developing (food) terminology. On the basis of descriptions of… read more
Exploring categories of odors from free sorting tasks and their representations in language by means of numerous different linguistic devices invited us to reconsider the cognitive model elaborated from the analysis of lexical forms and visual (and particularly color) categories. The diversity of… read more