Charlotte Hommerberg
List of John Benjamins publications in which Charlotte Hommerberg is involved.
Articles
2016 Chapter 9. We drink with our eyes first: The web of sensory perceptions, aesthetic experiences and mixed imagery in wine reviews Mixing Metaphor, Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W. (ed.), pp. 179–202 | Article
This chapter analyzes the language resources that writers have at their disposal to describe their experience of the web of sensory perceptions that are evoked in the wine tasting practice. The task of the writer is to provide a mental understanding of the sensations as well as a prehension of the… read more
2015 Appraisal and the language of wine appreciation: A critical discussion of the potential of the Appraisal framework as a tool to analyse specialised genres Functions of Language 22:2, pp. 161–191 | Article
This paper explores the language used by critics to appraise wine, at the same time investigating the validity and usefulness of categories in the Appraisal framework, as set out by Martin & White (2005). Our analysis of a corpus of wine reviews suggests that sub-categories of Appreciation — used… read more