Toshiyuki Kanamaru
List of John Benjamins publications in which Toshiyuki Kanamaru is involved.
Articles
2024 The polysemy of the Japanese temperature adjective atsui: A behavioral profile analysis Bringing Figurative Language into Real L2 Classrooms: The challenges of empirical testing, Piquer-Píriz, Ana M. and Reyes Llopis-García (eds.), pp. 476–504 | Article
This study adopts a corpus-based behavioral profile approach to explore the semantic relationships among the senses of the Japanese temperature adjective atsui (‘hot’). As a result, the hierarchical cluster analysis represents the distributional (dis)similarity of the ten senses of atsui.… read more
2007 12. Understanding synesthetic expressions: Vision and olfaction with the physiological = psychological model Speaking of Colors and Odors, Plümacher, Martina and Peter Holz (eds.), pp. 203–226 | Chapter
In this article, we introduce a cognitive model called the physiological = psychological model and discuss how one understands synesthetic expressions of language, e.g., warm color. We argue that there are two major types in synesthesia: one is the type whose synesthetic mapping is based on the… read more

