Inwieweit sind Geschmacksbezeichnungen als figurativ einzustufen? – Eine Untersuchung auf der Basis des Deutschen und Polnischen
To what Extent Can Taste Descriptions Be Classified as Figurative? – The Case of German and Polish

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to show which aspects of gustatory perception are talked about literally and/or figuratively. First, attention has been paid to philosophical, epistemological and neurophysiological issues of taste perception. This led to the conclusion that the sense of taste should be viewed in two ways: taste in the narrow (taste) and wide (flavour) sense. Subsequently, the gustatory perception frame has been established, whereas attention has been especially drawn to the three fundamental perceptual parameters – hedonic value, intensity and quality. The empirical part of the paper shows based on the analysis of the adjectival cooccurrences of the lexemes Geschmack and smak in German and Polish corpora, how the above-mentioned parameters can be talked about whereas they have been further divided into additional subgroups.

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