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Sensory Experiences
Exploring meaning and the senses
Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses describes the collective elaboration of a situated cognitive approach with an emphasis on the relations between language and cognition within and across different sensory modalities and practices. This approach, grounded in 40 years of empirical research, is a departure from the analytic, reductive view of human experiences as information processing.
The book is structured into two parts. Each author first introduces the situated cognitive approach from their respective sensory domains (vision, audition, olfaction, gustation). The second part is the collective effort to derive methodological guidelines respecting the ecological validity of experimental investigations while formulating operational answers to applied questions (such as the sensory quality of environments and product design).
This book will be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners dealing with sensory experiences and anyone who wants to understand and celebrate the cultural diversity of human productions that make life enjoyable!
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 24] 2021. xxv, 598 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 8 November 2021
Published online on 8 November 2021
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. xvii–xviii
- List of boxes | pp. xix–xxi
- List of figures | pp. xxiii–23
- List of tables | pp. xxv–25
- Prologue: Making sense of and with the sensesDavid Howes | pp. 1–7
- Foreword
- Part I. Theoretical frameworks and some empirical results
- Chapter 1. The five senses and the cognitivist approach to perceptionDanièle Dubois, Caroline Cance, Matt Coler and Arthur Paté | pp. 23–65
- Chapter 2. Visual experience of the road for safe drivingDanièle Dubois | pp. 67–95
- Chapter 3. Experiencing and talking about colorsCaroline Cance | pp. 97–138
- Chapter 4. Exploring soundscapesCatherine Guastavino | pp. 139–167
- Chapter 5. Exploring speech experiences: Linguists, speakers, sounds and meaningsMatt Coler | pp. 169–211
- Chapter 6. Exploring and talking about musicArthur Paté and Pascal Gaillard | pp. 213–247
- Chapter 7. Smell: An unspeakable sensory experience?Danièle Dubois | pp. 249–293
- Chapter 8. Taste as a holisensory experienceDanièle Dubois and Caroline Cance | pp. 295–331
- Chapter 9. From perception to sensory experiences: A paradigm shiftDanièle Dubois, Caroline Cance, Matt Coler, Arthur Paté and Catherine Guastavino | pp. 333–368
- Part II. Methodological consequences and guidelines
- Chapter 10. Questioning sensory experienceDanièle Dubois, Caroline Cance, Matt Coler, Arthur Paté and Catherine Guastavino | pp. 371–401
- Chapter 11. Subjects or participants?Danièle Dubois, Caroline Cance and Matt Coler | pp. 403–437
- Chapter 12. From stimulations to stimuli construction and selectionCaroline Cance, Danièle Dubois, Arthur Paté and Matt Coler | pp. 439–473
- Chapter 13. Procedures and outcomesDanièle Dubois, Caroline Cance and Arthur Paté | pp. 475–503
- Chapter 14. Making sense of the outcomesCaroline Cance, Danièle Dubois and Matt Coler | pp. 505–536
- Chapter 15. Free sorting task for exploring sensory categoriesArthur Paté, Danièle Dubois and Catherine Guastavino | pp. 537–572
- Afterword | pp. 573–576
- Further readings | pp. 577–586
- Index | p. 589
“This collection presents an extraordinary effort to propose a new, integrated, and revolutionary perspective on the five senses from the aspects of psychology and linguistics. The significance of “Sensory Experiences” is undeniable for the further explorations of sensory domains, their linguistic verbalizations, and the psychological processes involved. [...] This publication will certainly be of interest to researchers who are scientifically engaged with sensory domains from different disciplines, and will also motivate and interest others to perceive the senses from other aspects.”
Zorana Perić, University of Warsaw, on Linguist List 33.3604 (18 November 2022).
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