Ernesto Suárez-Toste

List of John Benjamins publications in which Ernesto Suárez-Toste is involved.

Title

Representing Wine – Sensory Perceptions, Communication and Cultures

Rosario Caballero, Ernesto Suárez-Toste and Carita Paradis

Wine culture is a complex phenomenon of increasing importance in modern society, and it combines the joys of wine appreciation with the frustrations of trying to verbally communicate sensory impressions. While wine appreciation is traditionally characterized as joyously convivial in its social… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 21] 2019. xii, 234 pp.

Articles

Suárez-Toste, Ernesto 2017 Babel of the senses: On the roles of metaphor and synesthesia in wine reviews Food and terminology: Expressing sensory experience in several languages, Temmerman, Rita and Danièle Dubois (eds.), pp. 89–112 | Article

Of all the varieties of sensory experience, wine appreciation seems to be one of the most rewarding yet also one of the most challenging to verbalize. This is largely due to a lack of scientific terminology capable of describing sensory impressions (in turn related to how little is known about… read more

Caballero, Rosario and Ernesto Suárez-Toste 2010 13. A genre approach to imagery in winespeak: Issues and prospects Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World, Low, Graham, Zazie Todd, Alice Deignan and Lynne Cameron (eds.), pp. 265–288 | Article

This chapter is concerned with the figurative language used by wine experts in the genre of the Tasting Note. Our main objectives are to draw attention to the complexities found in the figurative language used in this genre, and discuss some of the methodological issues researchers need to overcome… read more