Lexical Co-occurrence in Descriptions of Organoleptic Properties of Wine (distributional and cluster analysis)
Journal: Vestnik NSU Series Linguistics and Intercultural Communication
Year: 2025

The present study pertains to the field of oenological discourse, which is defined by its focus on the description of wine production and tasting represented by a variety of text types and stylistic genres. Drawing on a representative corpus of wine descriptions, the authors seek to reveal the typical language used to specify the organoleptic properties of wine, such as aroma and flavour. Due to the lack of specialized items denoting subtleties of smell and taste, metaphors are lavishly used, mo