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In this article we focus on the world of colour associations and atmospheres experienced by a famous and successful piano pedagogue. The aim of the study is to open one point of view inside the phenomenon of synaesthesia through one case which is truly reliable. This case study is based on personal interviews with the pedagogue (August 16-19, 1999, and April 27, 2010), and the findings are anchored theoretically in the synaesthetic experience. The article subtitles are the themes and subjects used in the interviews, and the free association discussions have been shaped into more structured form. To express the events in a way that is similar to the real life experiences, we have quoted the interviewee directly in our text. The article shows one individual´s way of experiencing, seeing and feeling the world of sounds and voices. It is concluded that the synaesthesia experiences of the target of the case study were genuine and they were repeated in two different interviews. Synaesthesia is a real phenomenon and not fake in any point of view
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This article deals with neurolinguistics which is part of cognitive methodology teaching English as a foreign language with reference to students’ individual styles of learning. The roots of the basic idea go into the concept of individual perception and processing of any information received by man via his natural sensory channels – visual, audial, kinesthetic. Some of the channels are more developed, thus making dominant modality. Together with the less developed channels they present the holistic perception of the whole image. As a result the «visuals» see the picture, the «audials» hear it and the «kinesthetic» feel it. In the educational setting you notice that one part of the students shows better seeing abilities like written texts, graphs, models; another group of the students is more perceptive to voice, intonations, tape recorded language materials; the third group understands all better while in motion or able to feel the touch of things, etc. These sensory qualities of the students make them distinguished, unique and give good grounds for creating individualized objects, be they material or verbal. The teacher’s concern here, as we see it, is to unleash the students’ hidden creative potentialities, advance in educational technologies and change learners’ demand in terms of access to new language creativity and learning. One of the effective exercises for developing students’ creativity is by introducing syna(e)sthesia into classroom practices. Syna(e)sthesia is a neuropsychological phenomenon. It appears in case of brain’s sensory excitement in its certain part, which simultaneously transfers onto another sensory part of the brain. This is the way to create metaphors – «see the pink air», «hear the rising sun», «feel the taste of romanticism». In the article there is a good supply of such examples taken from students’ experimental materials. Syna(e)sthesia is characteristic of talented philologists, writers, artists, producers and other people of verbal intellect. This cultural perspective socialized into everyday learning practices needs finer work with both languages – understanding the art of language translation, word meaning and its precise stylistic, lexicological colouring, developing own imagination and verbal creativity, which all taken together adds much to professional literacy. Note: The term literacy is used instead of competency in sociocultural approach.
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The present study is a continuation of previous investigations into the nature of sound-colour associations in a non-synaesthetic population conducted on English and Polish vowel sound systems and it aims at providing further evidence for the non-arbitrary nature of cross-modal mappings. The experiment1 was run on a specially designed computer program and involved 90 participants who were asked to match randomised auditory stimuli (12 English vowel sounds recorded in 2 conditions: in isolation and in a CVC context) with one of 11 basic colours (red, yellow, green, blue, brown, purple, pink, orange, black, white and grey) presented as coloured rectangles on a computer screen. The program kept record of the colour choice and reaction time of the participants, who fell into 2 groups with respect to the level of their language proficiency and phonetic awareness.An analysis of the results revealed statistically significant interactions between specific colours and individual vowel sounds for all 12 English vowels examined in the combined analysis; for 10 vowels in Condition 1 (isolated auditory stimuli) and for 7 vowels in Condition 2 (stimuli in the CVC context). A group effect was not found to be significant as far as the quality of mappings was concerned; however, in the case of reaction times the less advanced learners took significantly longer to assign colours to sounds in context. The findings indicate that vowel-sound mappings in non-synaesthetic perception appear non-arbitrary and follow the general tendencies in which bright colours (yellow, green) are associated with high front vowel sounds, whereas dark colours (brown, blue, black) are attributed to back vowels, while open sounds tend to be perceived as red and central vowels are mapped onto achromatic grey.
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The aim of the article is to present the ways of conceptualization of sound in Polish and Russian musical critical texts. For the purpose of the article 145 examples in Polish and 145 examples in Russian were analyzed. The material has been divided into three groups based on the type of sense: a visual approach to sound impressions, a tactile approach to sound impressions and a tastebased approach to sound impressions. The analyzed research material was presented with the use of the linguistic worldview methodology, and grouped into categories. The results of the comparative analysis showed a multiplicity of similarities in the types of categories, as well as in the types of synaesthetic metaphors. The largest groups of conceptualizations are those with Aristotelian origin: QUALITY, SUBSTANCE and SHAPE. Synaesthetic metaphors based on the visual approach to sound impressions proved to be the most widespread. The analyzed texts have provided a huge variety of conceptualizations and synaesthetic metaphors in Polish and Russian musical critical texts which constitute a part of the linguistic worldview of sound.
Prakseologia
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2008
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issue 148
171-183
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The paper attempts to present theoretical considerations on the problem of using synaesthesia as a new tool in marketing communication. The author demonstrates the prospects for sensory communication’s development – especially its influence on customer’s perception. Using sensory branding methodologies is surely a big challenge for marketing managers, but on the other hand the ethical dimension of communication which appeals to our five senses is controversial. The paper discusses the areas that are affected by manipulation. The main problem is that it could be impossible to use sensory communication in ethical and effective way in the same time.
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The article constitutes a re-reading of Charles Baudelaire’s Correspondences in the light of the controversial concept of ideasthesia. The author proposes that the sonnet operates on three levels of sensory cognition: an initial stage of rational sensory segmentation, a subsequent synaesthetic fusion of odours, sounds and colours, and finally – an ideasthetic synthesis of feeling and knowing.  The final stage of sensory processing triumphantly concludes the Symbolist quest for an elusive “beyond”, approximating the material and the ideal – the mechanism of which resembles an ideasthetic processing of sensory data. The poem mirrors the cognitive optimism characteristic of Baudelaire’s early thinking, soon to dissipate into melancholic (or Manichean) cognitive bankruptcy.
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Alicja Mazan-Mazurkiewicz’s aim in this article is to show the richness and variety of poetical implementations of culinary themes in children’s poetry as represented by Joanna Kulmowa, Joanna Papuzińska, Zofia Beszczyńska, and Agnieszka Kuciak. Mazan-Mazurkiewicz wants to emphasise how a topic that is close to the child and somehow obvious makes it possible for the receiver to be themselves poetically creative and offers them an aesthetic experience as well as an initiation (often unconscious) into the processes of artistic creation, involving humour, metaphor, synaesthesia, and retardation.
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The present article discusses selected examples of the poetic means which Seneca uses in order to achieve the effect of synaesthesia in his tragedies. An analysis of these examples reveals that the poet makes the most of the Latin language’s semantic and musical potential and in doing so achieves quite spectacular sensory effects.
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The main aim of the present paper is to investigate and describe the nature of synaesthetic devices employed by Vladimir Nabokov evident in his letters to his wife – Vera Slonim. The analysis of the language and style of the matrimonial intimate correspondence, written for one reader only, is expected to provide evidence allowing one to establish whether the numerous variants of perceptual synaesthesia employed by Nabokov in all his literary texts reflect his genuine synaesthetic experiences or whether such can only serve as examples of the writer’s passion for creating a kind of perceptual play on words and puzzles.
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The article investigates the role of senses in cognitive processes, based on the experience of people suffering from visual impairments or synaesthesia. It also presents an attempt to define the role of each sensual modality in gathering information about one’s closest environment. Special attention is paid to the increased importance of non-visual stimuli in cognitive processes due to the absence or impairment to the visual modality. The second part of the article contains a brief introduction to the problem of synaesthesia together with its influence on the perception of the world and learning processes. Różnice w odbiorze świata poprzez zmysły. Niewidomi i synesteci
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The aim of the intersemiotic and conceptual prose of Damir Miloš is to overcome the limitations  of language  and  literary  description,  especially  when  presenting  reality  through  the prism of sensual experience, both visual and olfactory. In Miloš’s prose the interconnectedness of art forms, often perceived today as a symptom of a literary crisis or a trend towards intermediality,  becomes  a special  and  convenient  pretext  to  use  intersemiotic  translation, visuality  and  synaesthesia  as  a means  of  presenting sensuality  in  literature.  The  Croatian author creates a world in which his protagonists, marked with certain incapacities or hypersensitivity of senses (an absolute sense of smell,  colour-blindness or blindness), conjure up their own individual and subjective reality. Thus, Miloš stresses the postmodern aspect of the multiplicity of truths and perspectives.
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The aim of the intersemiotic and conceptual prose of Damir Miloš is to overcome the limitations  of language  and  literary  description,  especially  when  presenting  reality  through  the prism of sensual experience, both visual and olfactory. In Miloš’s prose the interconnectedness of art forms, often perceived today as a symptom of a literary crisis or a trend towards intermediality,  becomes  a special  and  convenient  pretext  to  use  intersemiotic  translation, visuality  and  synaesthesia  as  a means  of  presenting sensuality  in  literature.  The  Croatian author creates a world in which his protagonists, marked with certain incapacities or hypersensitivity of senses (an absolute sense of smell,  colour-blindness or blindness), conjure up their own individual and subjective reality. Thus, Miloš stresses the postmodern aspect of the multiplicity of truths and perspectives. 
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This article was inspired by a discussion initiated by the author among the visually impaired guides at Niewidzialna Ulica (Invisible Street) in Poznań in April 2021. The resulting text not only collects their reflections but above all proposes solutions for the popularisation of visual arts among people with vision loss. The author starts with the concept of ‘synesthetic sensitivity’ and artistic ideas for the translation of the language of the visual into the language of the remaining four senses, offering examples of successful intersensory transpositions. The projects described in the paper may serve as a model for future solutions enabling the multisensory participation in art. Each project teaches us a different approach to art and the needs of people with visual impairments. They emphasise different aspects of participation in the visual world – developing imagination, expanding the network of associations, increasing the freedom of reception, facilitating memory, and promoting dialogue. Each of the proposed solutions glues different pieces of the broken world together, re-embedding sublime ideas in the human body and providing the blind, and indeed all of us, with new opportunities to experience art.
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The present paper is devoted to synaesthetic metaphors in Nabokov’s oeuvre. The main attention is paid to the metaphors in which both the source and the target domains are perceptual. Numerous constructions of the analysed material show that although in some cases a perceptual mode is initially specified, the imagery is linguistically related in terms belonging to one or more differing perceptual modes.Nabokov’s metaphoric expressions has been discussed in two groups: cross-modal sensory metaphors with the source domain of colour as well as the source domain of tactile perception. These constructions resemble synaesthesias (e.g., deep crimson softness, orange heat) even though, contrary to the neurodevelopmental synaesthesia, meanings of synaesthetic metaphors are generated through semantic processes. Interpretation of cross-modal sensory metaphors is determined by the context.
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Niniejszy artykuł poświęcony jest metaforom synestezyjnym w twórczości Nabokova. Uwaga skierowana jest głównie na metafory, w których zarówno domena źródłowa, jak i docelowa dotyczą wrażeń zmysłowych. Wiele przedstawionych podczas analizy konstrukcji dowodzi, że choć w pewnych przypadkach rodzaj modalności wydaje się określony w sposób oczywisty, to obrazowanie językowo odnosi się do jednej lub dwóch odmiennych modalności percepcyjnych.Nabokovowskie konstrukcje metaforyczne zostały omówione w dwóch grupach: międzymodalne metafory z kolorem jako domeną źródłową oraz metafory z domeną źródłową związaną z percepcją dotykową. Konstrukcje te niewątpliwie przypominają synestezję, choć w przeciwieństwie do synestezji uwarunkowanej neuropsychologicznie, znaczenie metafor synestezyjnych powstaje w rezultacie procesów semantycznych. Interpretacja metafor międzyzmysłowych jest uwarunkowana kontekstualnie.
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W ostatnim czasie nastąpiła intensyfikacja badań nad synestezją z perspektywy różnych dziedzin i dyscyplin naukowych. Wciąż jednak stosunkowo niewiele publikacji dotyczy przekładu synestezji i metafor synestezyjnych. Temu właśnie zagadnieniu poświęcony jest niniejszy artykuł, który stawia sobie za cel przybliżenie strategii przekładu rosyjskich metafor synestezyjnych na język polski. Analiza materiału językowego dotyczy przekładu dwóch odmian metafor synestezyjnych – konwencjonalnych i niekonwencjonalnych (żywych). Pierwsze z nich, jako przejaw uniwersalnych tendencji do kojarzenia wrażeń zmysłowych pochodzących z różnych modalności, często w różnych językach realizują ten sam koncept metaforyczny. Tłumaczenie tego typu asocjacji synestezyjnych polega zatem na wyszukaniu korespondującej metafory. Jeśli taka metafora nie istnieje w języku docelowym, tłumacz zmuszony jest podjąć inne działania, np. wyszukać inną metaforę reprezentującą ten sam koncept lub zrezygnować z metaforycznego charakteru frazy. Jeśli zaś chodzi o metafory żywe, to sprawa na pozór wydaje się prosta. Twórczy i indywidualny charakter tych skojarzeń pozwala bowiem na dokonanie przekładu słowo w słowo. Jak to jednak zostało przedstawione na przykładach polskich tłumaczeń opowiadań Vladimira Nabokova, tłumacze decydują się na przyjęcie innych rozwiązań, często zaskakujących i nie do końca zrozumiałych.
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The present paper is devoted to the analysis of synaesthetic metaphors in the Russian language from the perspective of their translation into Polish. The theoretical discussion is supported by the analysis of the translation of two types of synaesthetic metaphors – conventional and creative. As it has been shown, the behaviour of synaesthetic metaphors in translation is similar to that of other metaphors. In conventional metaphors historically close languages, such as Russian and Polish, often share similar cross-modal mappings, which make it possible to find a corresponding metaphor. In the case of creative synaesthetic metaphors, a word-by-word translation seem to be the most successful strategy. The translators, however, try to find more creative solution by modifying the synaesthetic association in the target language text.
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Współczesna kultura, pomimo podejmowanych w ubiegłym stuleciu prób obalenia bergsonowskiej „tyranii oka”, po raz kolejny popada w pułapkę „fetyszyzmu spojrzenia”. Niniejszy artykuł ma na celu opozycyjne usytuowanie synestezji wobec wzrokocentrycznej machiny kulturowej oraz wskazanie na rozmaite kinematografi czne, architektoniczne, sportowo-artystyczne, chronometryczne, a nawet edukacyjne i kulturowe doświadczenia synestetyczne wieku XXI, sprzeciwiające się okulocentrycznej wizji świata.
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Once again contemporary culture, regardless of the XXth century att empts to abolish Bergson’s “tyranny of the eye”, falls victim of the fetishism of the sight. The purpose of this paper is to portray synaesthesia as an antiocularcentric cultural device, as well as to indicate various cinematographic, architectural, sports, artistic, chronometric and even educational synaesthetic XXIst century cultural experiences which defy the ocularcentric vision of the world.
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The main goals of the article are to present the place of synaesthesia among the other devices of figurative language and to show diversity of synaesthetic associations in Vladimir Nabokov’s prose. As it has been proved, a key notion for understanding the mechanism and functioning of figures, such as synaesthesia, metaphor and metonymy, is that of conceptual conflict. The presence or absence of conceptual conflict underpins the distinction between living and conventional figures, as well as metonymy and hypallage.What is more, the distinction between metaphor and metonymy is based on the way they deal with conflict. In turn, interpretation of conceptual conflict may lead to understanding the mechanism of a synaesthetic association and the author’s strategy. The examples of Nabokov’s synaesthetic expressions show that metonymy and synaesthesia may be both present in a text and that they interact. However, it is worth underlying, that in literary texts synaesthesia may also coexist with hypallage and similes involving sensory lexemes, as it was observed on the examples of Nabokov’s prose.
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Głównym celem dyskusji podjętej w niniejszym artykule jest określenie miejsca, jakie synestezja zajmuje wśród innych środków języka figuratywnego oraz zaprezentowanie różnorodności asocjacji synestezyjnych w prozie Vladimira Nabokova. Jak to zostało dowiedzione, pojęciem kluczowym w zrozumieniu mechanizmu powstawania i funkcjonowania form języka figuratywnego, takich jak synestezja, metafora i metonimia, jest pojęcie konfliktu konceptualnego. Obecność lub brak konfliktu decydują o zakwalifikowaniu danego wyrażenia do kategorii form żywych lub konwencjonalnych oraz do metonimii lub form określanych jako hypallage. Co więcej, różnice między metaforą i metonimią dotyczą sposobu, w jaki formy te ‘radzą sobie’ z konfliktem pojęciowym. Z kolei interpretacja sprzeczności konceptualnej może prowadzić do wyjaśnienia mechanizmu asocjacji synestezyjnych i strategii autorskich. Przykłady wyrażeń synestezyjnych Nabokova świadczą o tym, że synestezja i metonimia mogą wchodzić w interakcje. Warto jednak podkreślić, że w tekście literackim synestezja współistnieje również z takimi formami zawierającym określenia sensoryczne, jak hypallage i porównanie, co zostało wykazane na przykładach z opowiadań i powieści Nabokova.
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This article concerns an overlooked aspect of the output of a famous Polish musicologist, Zofia Lissa (1908–1980). In one of her early texts she describes perception of a piece of music, which she presents as common to all listeners. The description proves highly synaesthetic (auditory – visual synaesthesia employing shapes but not colours) although Lissa herself denied it. The article discusses the musicologist’s claims in the light of the findings of contemporary synaesthesia studies. It also checks to what extent Lissa’s perceptual experiences and other theoretical statements (concerning i.e. the connections between music and film) may be relevant in the analyses of various artworks exploring the field of the auditory – visual synaesthesia. The article discusses the case of the avant-garde film The Eye and the Ear by Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, which features visual “equivalents” (in motion) of the auditory experience. It also analyses the colourful illustrations of the sounds produced by musical instruments (the case of the book Wszystko gra [Well played] by Anna Czerwińska-Rydel and Marta Ignerska).
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Punkt wyjścia artykułu stanowią wczesne teksty muzykolożki, Zofii Lissy, skupione wokół nieanalizowanej szerzej przez komentatorów jej prac problematyki wizualizacji muzyki. Opisywane wrażenia percepcyjne uznaje badaczka za wspólny wszystkim odbiorcom sposób przestrzennego doświadczania utworów muzycznych. Opisy Lissy zestawiane są w artykule z dzisiejszymi ustaleniami z zakresu neuronauki; analizuje się je w świetle badań nad doświadczeniami synestezyjnymi oraz użyciem metaforyki pseudosynestezyjnej. Druga część szkicu poświęcona jest deskrypcji artefaktów opartych m.in. na wizualizacji muzyki – pomysły badawcze muzykolożki konfrontowane są tu z praktyką artystyczną w dziedzinie szczególnie interesującego Lissę filmu awangardowego (The Eye and the Ear Franciszki i Stefana Themersonów) oraz mniej przez nią cenionych (w kontekście związków z muzyką) „statycznych dzieł artystycznych sfery wzrokowej” (ilustracje Marty Ignerskiej do tekstu Anny Czerwińskiej-Rydel w książce Wszystko gra).
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