Abstract:This paper presents a corpus-based exploratory study of the figurative conceptualizations of visual, auditory, and
olfactory stimuli in English and Hungarian. Through a manual semantic analysis of altogether 6,800 occurrences of 18 sensory nouns
(three per sensory modality in each language) in the TenTen corpora, the following conceptualization types of perceptual stimuli
have been examined: reification, agentification, animization, and personificatio… Show more
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