Publications
Publication details [#30286]
Backhouse, A.E. 1994. The lexical field of taste: A semantic study of Japanese taste terms. (Cambridge studies in linguistics). Cambridge University Press. x + 198 pp. 
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
This study of the Japanese taste vocabulary uses a structuralist theory of lexical meaning and systematically divides the data into 'evaluative' and 'descriptive' taste terms.