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Author:   Adrienne Lehrer (Professor of Linguistics, Professor of Linguistics, University of Arizona)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 21.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 14.50cm
Weight:   0.474kg
ISBN:  

9780195307931

ISBN 10:   0195307933
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   09 April 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments Part I. The Wine Vocabulary 1.: The Early Wine Words 2.: Extending the Vocabulary 3.: New Wine Words 4.: Aromas and Wine Wheels 5.: Evaluating Wine: Scoring Systems 6:: Semantic analysis Part II. The Experiments 7.: Experiments and Subjects 8.: The Stanford Subjects 9.: The Tucson Subjects 10.: The Davis Subjects 11.: Later Experiments 12.: Research on Taste and Smell Part III. Functions of Wine Talk: 13.: Functions of Language 14.: Scientific Language 15.: Non-Scientific Language 16.: Snobs, Anti-Snobs, and Marketing 17.: What Else is Like Wine Talk? 18.: Conclusion Appendix - A Semantic Theory by Adrienne Lehrer and Keith Lehrer Endnotes References

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Adrienne Lehrer is Professor of Linguistics (Emerita), University of Arizona. Lehrer has written on many aspects of lexical semantics: the structures of vocabularies and how words in a language are semantically related to one another. She has used wine descriptors and cooking words to test semantic theories. Recent woek has focused on creative neologisms, especially blends and the meaning of affixes.

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