CONCEPTUALIZATION OF THE OLFACTORY PERCEPTION IN THE GERMAN PICTURE OF THE WORLD (QUANTITATIVE ASPECT)

Shnyakina N. Y.

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The article shows the linguistic representation of quantitative side of the strategy of the olfactory perception. Attention is concentrated on two aspects: firstly, intensity of smell, secondly, quantity of smells, which a person can identify. The analysis bases on quantity scales and stereotypes. Such an analysis allows to complete facts about the representations of olfactory information (its quantitative aspect) in human language.

Keywords: cognitive strategy, the olfactory perception channel, perceptual mode, quantification, usual gradual scale, situational-modal scale, total-partitive scale, stereotype of quantification, intensity of smell, the number of odors

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Issue: 3, 2013

Pages: 51 — 56

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