STANFORD LINGUIST 62n   -     Winter 2012
Homework 4
Due: noon on Tuesday Jan 31
  1. Find some taste terms on a package of chocolate, or tea, or really anything, and write up a linguistic analysis. You could come up with semantic features like Adrienne did (for example talking about whether the words are evaluative, and what properties of the food they describe), and you could talk about where the words' metaphors come from. The reading for this week points out that you can also talk about texture as well as taste, so analyzing words about texture are good too. Give lots of examples and remember to do the semantic analysis, not just talking about the food.