On some lexical particularities of the Portuguese oenological discourse

The interest in wine as a cultural and value-semantic phenomenon led to the emergence and formation of a specialized language, the so-called oenological discourse, affecting both the description of the processes of beverage production and the evaluation of its color, aromatic, taste and other characteristics. Due to the complex nature of the oenological discourse, which involves almost all spheres of human perception (except hearing), as well as the well-known complexity of verbalization and transmission of human sensations from one language to another, wine terminology could not remain out of the focus of linguists, interpreters and translators for a long time. The author of the article emphasizes the relevance of the studied issues and cites the studies of Russian and foreign linguists who have made a contribution to the study of oenological discourse. The oenological discourse, characterized by an abundance of color, taste and aroma nominations, a high degree of imagery and expression, is considered primarily in the article from the point of view of its lexical features. The author compares Portuguese and Russian organoleptic descriptions, analyzes lexical units that provide visual, olfactory and taste evaluation of wine. In the three thematic groups described ("color", "aroma", "taste") there are adjectives whose meaning directly correlates with the existing nominations of shades of color, smells (aromas) and tastes, and there are those that fix sensations based on more complex and multi-layered comparisons with objects, objects or phenomena, can be associated with tactile perception (touching), going beyond linear designations and informing the recipient of some additional information. Decoding the meanings of such lexico-semantic units occurs exclusively in accordance with the level of awareness of the recipient, his experience and professionalism in this field. By the terms and phrases used by the speaker and the interlocutor, it is easy to determine the scale of their knowledge and the degree of their involvement in the area under study. The author of the article comes to the conclusion about the amazing metaphoric features of oenological descriptions, revealing the deep cognitive mechanisms inherent in Portuguese and Russian speakers.