ON THE VERBALIZATION OF TASTE SENSATIONS IN POLISH AND RUSSIAN
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https://doi.org/10.52301/2957-5567-2025-4-4-74-85Keywords:
taste sensations, Polish language, Russian language, comparative analysis, verbalization, Niki SegnitAbstract
The subject of this study is the verbalization of taste sensations in the book “The Flavour Thesaurus” by the British writer Niki Segnit, presented into Polish and Russian. The aim is to examine how different language versions convey descriptions of tastes and what lexical strategies are used in this process. The main method is contrastive lexical analysis, which makes it possible to compare word choices and descriptive expressions in both languages. The analysis includes the identification of lexemes and taste-related phrases, the comparison of adjectives, collocations, and metaphors, as well as the identification of typical lexical patterns in each language. The comparative analysis has revealed that Polish and Russian possess diverse yet similar ways of conceptualizing taste sensations: indicating taste as a property attributed to different objects by similarity, referring to basic prototype tastes, employing synesthetic metaphors, and using evaluative adjectives as subjective assessments with emotional connotations.
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