The Language of Food in Japanese: Cognitive Perspectives and Beyond.

Discourse about food and cuisine is, she argues, the genre par excellence for cognitive linguistics research because eating is intrinsically amalgamated into multimodal perception in the socio-cultural context. The authors argue that actual eating and imagined eating are expressed with varying degrees of iconicity: the former induces a more iconic use of ideophones, whereas the latter exhibits less iconicity. Section II, "Mimetics and sound-symbolism in food names and food descriptions", is composed of three chapters. [Extracted from the article]