Les odeurs dans les blogs culinaires français
The smells in French culinary blogs

Summary/Abstract: In this article, we propose to examine the role of odors in culinary speech in order to understand how French speakers shape their olfactory and taste perception. The world of smells will serve as a point of entry to the description of this community. Within this perspective, we study the use of smell names (odor, perfume, scent, etc.) and the importance (or not) of hedonic adjectives accompanying such names. Linguistic expressions are a form of access to olfactory representations and the hedonic judgment can be regarded as an intrinsic property of these representations. Our corpus study shows that French prefers the use of basic axiological adjectives (good / bad smell) and avoids intensity ones.

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