The Linguistics of Olfaction

The relative scarcity of lexical olfactory field in Polish makes it difficult to describe the complex and subjective sensation of smell. Unsurprisingly, the Polish perfumery discourse is permeated with various types of metaphors. This chapter proposes a typology of metaphors on the basis of excerpts from the Synamet –Polish corpus of synesthetic metaphors. The annotation of a metaphorical unit in Synamet is based on Cognitive Metaphor Theory (CMT) and Fillmorean Frame Semantics. We distinguish s