Peter Holz

List of John Benjamins publications in which Peter Holz is involved.

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Speaking of Colors and Odors

Edited by Martina Plümacher and Peter Holz

How to speak of colors and odors? In many cases, we have to think about an adequate description of a perceived odor or shade of color. Words are not fluently available.The contributions discuss color and odor perception and its linguistic representation from different disciplinary angles: from… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 8] 2007. vi, 244 pp.

Articles

Holz, Peter 2007 11. Cognition, olfaction and linguistic creativity: Linguistic synesthesia as poetic device in cologne advertisement Speaking of Colors and Odors, Plümacher, Martina and Peter Holz (eds.), pp. 185–202 | Chapter

The starting point of this paper is the observation that there is no consistent and conventionalized ‘lexicon of olfaction’ in any language. This is due in large part to the neurophysiological incongruence of language-processing and smellprocessing structures in the brain. Nonetheless we do in some… read more

Plümacher, Martina and Peter Holz 2007 1. Speaking of colors and odors Speaking of Colors and Odors, Plümacher, Martina and Peter Holz (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter