Color Me Bitter: Crossmodal Compounding in Tzeltal Perception Words
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Color Me Bitter: Crossmodal Compounding in Tzeltal Perception Words
Within a given language and culture, distinct sensory modalities are often given differential linguistic treatment in ways reflecting cultural ideas about, and uses for, the senses. this article reports on sensory expressions in the Mayan language tzeltal, spoken in southeastern Mexico. Drawing both on data derived from tzeltal consultants’ responses to standardized sensory elicitation stimuli ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Senses and Society
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1745-8927,1745-8935
DOI: 10.2752/174589311x12893982233957