Irene Ronga
List of John Benjamins publications in which Irene Ronga is involved.
Articles
2016 Taste synaesthesias: Linguistic features and neurophysiological bases Metaphor and Communication, Gola, Elisabetta and Francesca Ervas (eds.), pp. 47–60 | Article
Taste synaesthesias are metaphorical expressions composed of a taste-related
head and a modifier related to a different sensory modality (e.g. ‘delicate taste').
By employing an interdisciplinary approach, combining corpus linguistics with
neurophysiology, it is shown that taste synaesthesias are… read more
2012 Linguistic synaesthesia, perceptual synaesthesia, and the interaction between multiple sensory modalities Pragmatics & Cognition 20:1, pp. 135–167 | Article
Recent studies on cortical processing of sensory information highlight the importance of multisensory integration, and define precise rules governing reciprocal influences between inputs of different sensory modalities. We propose that psychophysical interactions between different types of sensory… read more