Sarah Turner (Coventry University), Jeannette Littlemore (University of Birmingham)

The Many Faces of Creativity

Exploring Synaesthesia Through a Metaphorical Lens

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Produktbeschreibung

In this Element, the authors compare the written descriptions of sensory and emotional experiences produced by twenty synaesthetes and twenty non-synaesthetes, and explore the characteristics of their writing, particularly as they relate to metaphor. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Produktdetails

• Elements in Cognitive Linguistics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 75
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 162g
• ISBN-13: 9781108971362
• ISBN-10: 1108971369
• Artikelnr.: 66802222

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'Tiny balloons filled with mashed potatoes': what is synaesthesia, and what has it got to do with creativity and metaphor?; 2. 'Those cookies tasted of regret
:' how we investigated evaluative descriptions of sensory experiences; 3.
and rotting flesh: how do synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes evaluate sensory experiences? What we found
; 4. 'Yeurgh
': How we investigated synaesthetes' and non-synaesthetes' responses to emotion words and emotive expressions, and what we found; 5. 'I don't like looking at numbers with no discernible pattern': Conclusion.